David Christensen wrote: > Yes -- I'm such an insensitive ass. ;-) >
nice to meet you :) > > I've "cleaned up" more files than I care to remember. Lexing, parsing, > and EBFN are the standard computer science tools for tasks such as this. > (Perl s/// is the road to madness for anything but the most trivial > cases.) I wanted to give the OP an idea of what needs to be done and the > level of effort involved. > > Selfcontradiction IMO - but you are right - for sure one has to try first, just to find out that regex is not enough. Sometimes I am wondering where people get the time to spent on such things. >> On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:40 PM, deloptes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> David Christensen wrote: >> >>> 2. Get a tool that understands the dump file (such as the original >>> database engine), import the dumps, and then generate queries/ reports/ >>> etc. as desired to meet your needs. >> >> This is probably the best solution to the problem - import the dump and >> export in a friendly way > > Laziness is the first chief virtue of (Perl) programmers [1]. Hopefully, > the OP has this option. > regards
