bulk data validation

[John D Groenveld]

I have several large CSV files which I need to import into Oracle tables.
I've written code using DBD::CSV and DBD::Oracle to do the actual data
transfer, but I'd like to do some of the validation of the data (does 
a particular data item conform to the Oracle data dictionary? does it
follow the basic business rules) inside Perl. Before I grow my code much
more, has this problem already been generalized?

%columns = (
        last_name => {
                nullable=>"NO",
                size=>32,
                regex=>'...',
        }
        );

Thanks,
John
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