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- From: mlo@cray.com (Mick Oyer)
- Subject: Re: ORAPERL
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.155333.10931@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Reply-To: mlo@cray.com
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <1992Aug20.153129.19480@stortek.com>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 15:53:33 CDT
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- In article 19480@stortek.com, v045100@otis1.stortek.com (Jennifer Farnham) writes:
- >
- >Is anyone out there familiar with ORAPERL?
- >
- >Supposedly its Perl with embedded Oracle....?
- >
- >Before I build it on our system, I would like
- >to hear from people who are somewhat familiar
- >with it.
- >
-
- I use oraperl a lot, not so much for ITs usefulness, but because of
- the overall usefulness of perl. It's great to just slurp in a
- set of records, process them any 'ol way you want, and use the
- formatting options of perl to spit them out.
-
- About the only things lacking are the sqlplus functions (column formatting
- for example) although perl's printf usually works as well, if not better.
-
- I believe you'll need access to the Pro*C libraries to build oraperl, but
- as with perl itself, the building is relatively painless (don't quote me,
- I didn't build it on our system, but have talked to the guy that did).
-
- There's an oraperl man page. It's the only oraperl documentation I've
- ever needed.
-
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