Re: Solution to Quick easy question

[James Weisensee <itjayw@yahoo.com>]

Everyone,
I apologize for not giving enough background into what
I was trying to accomplish.  I am very new at PERL and
I didn't want to write a novel in an email for a basic
question or over step any bounds with this mailing
list.  I was just trying to be polite and not clog up
everyone's email.

I work for a very small ISV.  Some of our clients have
anywhere from 1-12 different companies, all using our
software on 1 machine.  What we do is create a
different directory for each company that our client
wants and hold the data (C-Isam database) in it's
corresponding directory. I've created a config file
that will hold the information of which companies data
is held in what directory so I don't have search our
startup scripts to find where the data is being held
(since this is can be very different from client to
client).  To answer a question that must be on
everyone's mind;  No my co-workers never heard of the
word "Standards".  Here is snippet of my config file:

NUM_DB=3    # Number of databases

DCS_DB1=T12    # Command to start software for company
DB1_DIR=/DS03/MF02   # Directory where data is held
DB1_NM= Company1   # Name of company

DCS_DB2=T15
DB2_DIR=/DS09/MF15
DB2_NM=Company2

DCS_DB3=T17
DB3_DIR=/DS02/MF17
DB3_NM=Company3

Since each client will have a variable # of companies,
I wanted a way to keep the same format for my config
file, across clients.  Hence the the #'s 1-3 or for
some it would be 1-12.  This is why I was using the
'for' loop to iterate through the variable names.  I
just wanted to print to the screen where and how many
databases each client has in one command, instead of
searching around for the info.  This is being used
internally only. If there is a better way, I'm all
ears.

As far as the whitespaces go in my 'printf', I guess I
could've written it:

 printf ("%-24s %-24s %-30s\n", etc etc

but considering my "standards compliant" co-workers I
was afraid they would just start getting nuts with the
config file and start naming things without a
forthought.  So I figured I would limit the size of
the names and use the whitespaces to keep things
aligned.

HTH and thanks for the patience,
James

   
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