[sf-perl] Embedded Perl in a Korn shell program

[Loo, Peter # PHX]

Yes Quinn, I did think about using a database to do the date
calculation, but because I only need to add a "day" to this single value
in the file, I had decided against using the database.  It is working
great now.  Perl is not being used for multiple pass in a loop.
 
Peter

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g] On Behalf Of Quinn Weaver
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 3:38 PM
To: San Francisco Perl Mongers User Group
Subject: Re: [sf-perl] Embedded Perl in a Korn shell program

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:27:40PM -0700, Loo, Peter # PHX wrote:
> 
> Here is what I am doing:
> 
> YYYYMMDD is a value retrieved from a file.  This file contains the 
> date of a previously processed file date.

Sounds like you're pushing some pretty complicated syntax and semantics
into a flat file.  Of course, I don't know if you have Korn-specific
stuff in there, but... have you considered using a relational database
instead?

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