Anyone online that knows perl that can answer a question?

[photon]

Having a problem and can't get it to work.

[photon]

Nevermind I think I got it, apparently you have to escape the $ character in strings (which makes sense now that I think about it).

I hate being a n00b.

[llama64]

PERL - what Cat Vomit would look like if it was in ASCII

[photon]

Tell me about it, holy crap. I'm going to rewrite this whole app at some point.

And it's not even best case scenario, the WHOLE server is one perl script with a big case statement at the front. And there's 5 copies of it on 5 URLs to handle different devices.

So whenever I make a change I have to update 5 different source files, and they're all slightly different.

Kill me now.

[Azure]

I have to write a script with Perl too, and I'm making the Google servers crash by trying to find one that someone already made.

God.

[BlackEleven]

I had to maintain a Perl app way back in the day. I slowly ported it piece by piece to Python and got rid of the blasted thing. Saved me so many headaches.

[llama64]

PERL is a great tool if:
1) you can read it
2) you wrote it

If you inherit the script from some one, may God have mercy on your sanity.

PERL still reigns as the fastest, simplest text processing language that I've used. Though, one wonders if that small boost in efficiency is worth the development pain...

[photon]

Yeah the script was intended as a proof of concept alpha version software, not written by me. And the guy who wrote it inherited the design from someone else who figured that stored procedures were the best thing ever so the stored procedures were already written.

So it's a hack of a hack of an alpha release.. and of course we have over 10,000 users globally on the thing now.

Good thing I spent a week sifting through the stored procedures optimizing them, otherwise we'd be offline right now. They were truly horrible.. I think 80% of the queries were requiring a full table scan, and taking dozens to hundreds of seconds to complete.. now only 5% of queries take more than 1 second

Still, hoping to get on top of all the changes and fixes so I can write a big test suite so I can then rewrite the whole thing in PHP.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by llama64

PERL still reigns as the fastest, simplest text processing language that I've used. Though, one wonders if that small boost in efficiency is worth the development pain...

And that's why I still use AWK!

[Bobblehead]

My dept is on a long term project to convert programs that run on a MF (cobol & RPG) against a DL1 database into programs that are in VB.net against an Oracle database.

The first edict is make it work EXACTLY like it did on the MF. Then we are told to make a whole whack of enhancements. And it doesn't matter how many times we explain that if we had been allowed to make the enhancements with initial redevelopment that it would have been FAR easier. And this is still an ongoing methodology.