On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 02:38:06PM +0100, aditi gupta wrote:
> hi,
>
> for writing perl programs,notepad is used.But what should be done to execute the
> programs?
What I generally do is to open a DOS window and type 'perl <name of my
script>'. So, if I want to run foo.pl, I type: perl foo.pl
> Also,how can i take input from online databases?like,if i have to get a
> gene sequence from Genbank,what command should i write in program?
Read up on the DBI (Perl's DataBase Interface layer):
Here's a good place to start:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/10/DBI.html
You can install it from CPAN, along with all the DBD modules (see
above tutorial for what the DBD modules are).
--Dks
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