[PLUG] Date Reformatting in Database Table

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Sat Oct 10 07:41:11 UTC 2009


>>>>> "Roderick" == Roderick A Anderson <raanders at cyber-office.net> writes:

Roderick>      my ($f1, $f2, $f3, $f4, $f5, $f6, $f7, $f8, $f9, $f10, $f11) =
Roderick>      split('\|', $_);

"My eyes... the goggles do nothing!"

Seriously, whenever you start having variable names or column names or
anything names that end in "1", "2", "3", you're doing it wrong.

An array would have worked far better there.

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