[ale] Fore (Was Re: [ale] Simple Perl Question)

[James P. Kinney III]

Fletch,
You are clearly one of those people who have given perl the bad
reputation of being an illegible language!

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 11:34, Fletch wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>     Bob> I am reading lines of data from a file and doing an extract
>     Bob> to go into a SQL database.  Fields are delimited by "|".
>     Bob> There are 12 fields per line.  I would like to read each
>     Bob> line into an array, and then export four of the fields.  So,
>     Bob> and extract could be:
> 
> perl -F\\\| -lane 'print q{insert into foo values ("},join(q{",}, at F[0,4,6,9]),qq{")\n}' ./52.txt | $YOUR_DB_PROG
> 
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