graeme do you realized this is a perl list?
-----Original Message----- From: "Graeme McLaren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 05/22/2006 2:09:12 PM To: "beginners@perl.org" <beginners@perl.org> Subject: export script problem Hi all, I need to export data from one database table to another. I also need to cleanse the data before inserting it to the other DB. There is only one unique column "login" and that is an string such as "login1". The rest are contact details, personal name / address and business name / address. There are duplicates in the data and just general rubbish. I've been plugging away at my export script for the last three days and I'm not really any closer to finding a proper solution. I've written a script that *should* clean up the personal address details and write them to an XML file but it will probably take over a week to run and there isn't time for that. Can anyone suggest and effective way of doing this? I want to write the cleansed data to an XML file so I don't have to worry about how to insert it to the other DB table at this stage. Some data is incomplete so its not possible to keep a record of "logins" because they may need replaced with more complete data. So really I need to keep track of addresses both personal and business and take what ever record has the most complete data. Any tips/suggestions? Cheers in advance. G :) Public Sub House() On Error Resume drink If Pint.empty = True Then Pint.refill Else Pint.drink End if stomach.add Pint MsgBox " I've had .... " & stomach.count & " Pints" MsgBox "VERY DRUNK" End Sub -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.��?org/first-response>
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>