John Paxton on 6 Feb 2004 21:02:31 -0000 |
> be careful when talking about perl version numbers. all perl > 5.x versions can (and probably should) be represented as > 5.00x version numbers (eg. 5.8.0 is also 5.008.) the 5.6.0 > and higher releases used v-strings to represent version > information, but v-strings have since been deprecated due to > implementation problems. so, this style of versioning is not > backward- or forward-compatible. > > so which versions of perl are you really talking about? > perl -e'die $]' Ok, so then, we're talking about versions as early as 5.00503. > > For context, we do a lot of Oracle interaction, a lot of file > > parsing and a > > whole darn lot of data exchange between various file formats. > > > > Knowing this, I'd be interested to see what folks here recommend. > > Assume that DBI and DBD::Oracle are on the list. What else > do folks > > recommend? > > the core module list in recent perls has grown some, so you > may find more of your favorites installed along with perl. > anyway, Template, DBI, and XSH are my favourite data-munging utils. Thanks! --John - **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org**
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