Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl & DBI

[Dave Johnson <dave_johnson@ieee.org>]

At 4:25 PM -0500 12/16/00, Scott R. Godin wrote:
>Finally picked up a copy of Learning the Perl DBI and am going to study my
>ass off and work up to implementing some stuff eventually to take the place
>of the flat-file management I'm doing now.
>
>I've posted here before regarding this, as Chris Nandor may recall, althugh
>at this point in time I don't recall whether I was able to get the suite of
>scripts I'd been talking about at the time, all installed and running, but
>I'll find out eventually once I get around to starting to play with it. :D
>
>If anyone has any tips/tricks and enlightenment they can offer regarding
>MacPerl and DBI scripting, I'd be very interested.
>
>--
>Scott R. Godin            | e-mail : webmaster@webdragon.net
>Laughing Dragon Services  |    web : http://www.webdragon.net/
>
Scott;

I've picked up 'Programming the Perl DBI' and have been trying to 
play with it for a about a
week. I've been using the DBD::CSV driver simply because it appears 
to be the only one
available for the Mac. I've has some moderate success. Although this 
is limited it is
a start.

If I remember the sequence correctly you need:
from http://pudge.net/cgi-bin/mmp.plx

1) DBI
2) SQL::Statement
3) Text::CSV_XS

You will also need  DBD::CSV is available from your local CPAN 
mirror. Note the Makefile
does not work on Macs and you will have to install it manually.

Most discussion on this list centers around DBI::Proxy which lets you 
access a data base
on a different machine. (Which I at the moment do not have access to.)

Dave


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