Re: [MacPerl] Accessing FileMaker Pro data

["Alex K Suska" <aksuska@insideflyer.com>]

> I guess one sticking point that I have is that I am having some trouble
> seeing why this is actually worthwhile beyond sounding like a pretty
> interesting exercise? The best reason that I can think of is that it's
> probably faster than just relying on AppleScript, but maybe I'm overlooking
> something else? Anyway, if you get something to work in MacPerl, I'd like to
> see it.

The way I look at such things is to consider the possibilties of perl with a
FileMaker back-end or visa versa.  I have used perl as a data processor for even
4th Dimension databases which are far more sophisticated than FileMaker.
Recently I had to gather survey results from a FM database and output them in a
single report, which is impossible within FM, but extremely extensible with
MacPerl and a web browser.  The alternative would be rather tedious.

-Alex

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