[Aberdeen-pm] Quick perl fix needed

Gavin Henry ghenry at perl.me.uk
Sat Mar 11 10:30:34 PST 2006


<quote who="Mark McRitchie">
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Gavin Henry wrote:
>> > Into an associative array eg:
>> I think you mean a hash.
>
> Different names for the same thing :P

Yeah, but common is a hash ;-)

>
>> > Is there a quick way to do this? Yes its an XML string, but I want to
>> do
>> > it without having to use any extra packages...
>>
>> The quick way is to use a module, as many people have worked on the
>> various XML ones, hence are more accurate and bug free compared to what
>> we
>> could write ;-)
>
> I don't want to use any extra modules as that would involve remastering
> the CD we use to build our PCs with to include the extra modules.

Ah, now I understand.

>
> It was the quickest and easiest way we could think of to get a very basic
> linux to query our SQLServers.
>
> I may make a request to the project to add XML modules to the next
> version.

Yeah, if it gets more complicated, best thing to do.

>
>
> Mark.
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