New to perl

[CIMTEET]

Can perl use a cursor to access oracle databases on unix systems?
I need to learn how to do two things quickly with perl:

1.Read an external text file
2.Parse and pass data to another file

Are there any examples I could work with?

Greg

 

[xmassey]

Hello,

I am not sure if you are able to use an oracle database however I know that you can read and use information stored on an external file... For example

To open and write to a file (i.e. logfile.txt)...

open (LOG, ">>/YOURPATH/logfile2.txt") || Error('open', 'file');
flock (LOG, 2) || Error('lock', 'file');
print LOG " Hello\n";
close (LOG);

Then to use what is written in the file (using variable @logmessages)...

open (LOG, "/YOURPATH/logfile.txt") || Error('open', 'file');
flock (LOG, 2) || Error('lock', 'file');
my @logmessages = <LOG>;
close (LOG) || Error ('close', 'file');

Now whereever you place @logmessages, the logfile will be printed (in this case the word "hello".

Chris