At least Perl is a good hammer to have

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Post #150,495 by Meerkat 4/8/04 3:02:39 AM Reply	At least Perl is a good hammer to have I had a unix-hating coworker whose 'hammer' was Excel. This cow-orker still insisted they couldn't do a line count on large files because "It's more than 65000 rows, it won't load into Excel". Yep, wc -l was too difficult ("I don't do command-line"), so they loaded the file into Excel and went to the last row to get the rowcount... Sometimes, just sometimes, I feel real clever at work! John. Busy lad.
Post #150,498 by Steve Lowe 4/8/04 3:12:58 AM Reply	use that one a lot I use wc -l so much I've aliased it to just plain w Also global changes in text files..can change all occurences of a string that appears in each line of a 250K line file faster with perl or sed than the file can be loaded into a windows app. ----- Steve
Post #152,303 by broomberg 4/22/04 10:58:47 PM Reply	I don't like it Too slow for large files. And no feedback while it's working. Here's mine in Perl: \n#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w\n\nrequire 'mylib.pl'; #gets the cm - comma function\nuse strict;\n\nmy $count = 0;\nmy $MOD = 10_000;\n\nwhile (<>){\n\t$count++;\n\n\tprint STDERR "Working on [" . cm($count) . "]\\r" \n\t\tunless ($count % $MOD){\n}\n\nprint "\\n\\nCounted [" . cm($count) . "]\\n\\n";\n
Post #152,318 by Meerkat 4/23/04 2:23:05 AM Reply	No feedback? That's what top / glance is for :) John. Busy lad.

Oracle: 'DECODE' performance impact? - (Meerkat) - (19) - April 6, 2004, 09:47:12 PM EDT

Highly unlikely - (ben_tilly) - (4) - April 6, 2004, 10:14:19 PM EDT

Sounds like a great book - (Meerkat) - (3) - April 6, 2004, 10:28:33 PM EDT

Re: Sounds like a great book - (kelzer) - (2) - April 7, 2004, 06:11:50 PM EDT

Heh. We've got a comedian among us. - (Another Scott) - April 7, 2004, 06:16:56 PM EDT

My subconscious inadvertantly told you all - (Meerkat) - April 7, 2004, 11:59:02 PM EDT

Depends on what clause - (ChrisR) - (3) - April 6, 2004, 10:52:32 PM EDT

Just to clarify that - (ben_tilly) - (2) - April 7, 2004, 01:14:51 AM EDT

It's just in the SELECT clause - (Meerkat) - (1) - April 7, 2004, 02:02:20 AM EDT

Functions in the WHERE can be fine - (ben_tilly) - April 7, 2004, 10:57:43 AM EDT

Belated answer: "What they said". - (CRConrad) - (8) - April 7, 2004, 09:50:49 AM EDT

Transposing rows to columns is a PITA - (ben_tilly) - (7) - April 7, 2004, 10:50:12 AM EDT

"When the only tool you have is a hammer..." - (CRConrad) - (6) - April 8, 2004, 01:52:00 AM EDT

But that isn't the only tool that I have - (ben_tilly) - (5) - April 8, 2004, 02:23:07 AM EDT

At least Perl is a good hammer to have - (Meerkat) - (3) - April 8, 2004, 03:02:39 AM EDT

use that one a lot - (Steve Lowe) - (2) - April 8, 2004, 03:12:58 AM EDT

I don't like it - (broomberg) - (1) - April 22, 2004, 10:58:47 PM EDT

No feedback? That's what top / glance is for :) -NT - (Meerkat) - April 23, 2004, 02:23:05 AM EDT

No no no, you misunderstand! - (CRConrad) - April 8, 2004, 03:11:51 AM EDT

Eliminate decode wherever you can - (tuberculosis) - April 9, 2004, 03:01:43 AM EDT

And, of course, steaming poo...
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