RE: RE: Dba tools on NT

Looks OK to me, seems about right
Although when you start using Macros and such the readability drops a little as it can take a bit of jumping around to understand it.

Cheers

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> -----Original Message----- 

> From: Jared.Still_at_radisys.com [mailto:Jared.Still_at_radisys.com] 

> 

> How many of those "non-cryptic" languages can dump a table 

> to a CSV file in 2 lines of (readable ) code? 

> 

>    while ( my $ary = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref ) { 

>       print  q{"} . join(q{","},@{$ary}) . qq{"\n}; 

"Readable" code? 
Now take COBOL, that was readable code! 
e.g. (from memory - excuse any errors) 
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 
PROGRAM-ID.  DUMP_VALUES. 
AUTHOR.  MOI. 
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. 
INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION. 
FILE-CONTROL. 
    SELECT MYDATAFILE ASSIGN TO "SOMEFILE.DAT" 
                ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL. 
DATA DIVISION. 
FILE SECTION. 
FD MYDATAFILE. 
01 MYCOLS. 
   05  ID              PIC 9(7). 
   05  NAME. 
       10 FIRST_NAME   PIC X(20). 
       10 LAST_NAME    PIC X(20). 
  
PROCEDURE DIVISION. 
BEGIN. 
   OPEN INPUT MYDATAFILE. 
   READ MYDATAFILE 
      AT END MOVE HIGH-VALUES TO MYCOLS 
   END-READ. 
   PERFORM UNTIL MYCOLS = HIGH-VALUES 
      DISPLAY 
         ID SPACE FIRSTNAME SPACE LASTNAME 
      END-DISPLAY 
      READ MYDATAFILE 
         AT END MOVE HIGH-VALUES TO MYCOLS 
      END-READ 
   END-PERFORM. 
   CLOSE MYDATAFILE. 
   STOP RUN. 


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