Subj : database access using Perl
To   : marc lewis
From : Jame Clay
Date : Sun Aug 19 2001 02:40 pm

Hello marc!

    This is a repost;  I don't think my original message got anywhere...


Jul 29 13:33 01, Jame Clay wrote to mark lewis:

 JC> 16 Jul 01 14:51, mark lewis wrote to Jame Clay:

 ml>> could it be that you're expecting something that isn't? the nodelist 
 ml>> doesn't have a set number of fields in each record... there is a 
 ml>> minimum, though...

 ml>> 1, 2,       3,           4,         5,             6,   7

 ml>>  ,10,some_bbs,some_city_NC,some_sysop,1-919-774-5930,2400

 JC>    That's what that split function is doing;  everything after the 
 JC> baud rate is going into the "$flags" variable...


 ml>> oh! and what order are you looking for things in?

 JC>    It's not intelligent to be doing any looking at all!<g>   All I'm 
 JC> doing at this point is spliting the line on the commas into 8 
 JC> varibles...



 JC> Regards,
 JC> Jame

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Regards,
Jame

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