[PLUG] Date Reformatting in Database Table

[Roderick A. Anderson]

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "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.

You are right on there.  I didn't say in my post it was partially a 
joke.  Many years ago I was asked to add some minor functionality to a 
Fortran program written by a Civil Engineer.
   There was no documentation and the variables were exactly like this. 
F1-F18.  That made it interesting as they were used to to do some 
complex calculations and I, not being a civil engineer, didn't know what 
was being used for where.

Also I was caught up in the 11 fields thought.  Not a Perl hacker, just 
pragmatic.  :-)

> An array would have worked far better there.

Got a few of them hanging around where the script wasn't slapped together.

> 
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Rod
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