On 2010-04-19 21:21:45 +1200, newbie01 perl wrote: > I need to convert a lot of UNIX scripts into Perl.
No, you are trying to convert a Perl script written for Unix into a Perl
script which runs on Windows.
> Most of them uses the
> UNIX's EOF/EOL functionality. These scripts are mostly used to connect to
> Oracle databases. At the moment, installing a DBI is not an option.
Then why do you ask on the DBI mailing list?
> The scripts will be running locally on the servers so technically it
> should be able to connect to the database without using a password.
I don't see what that has to do with your problem.
> Example of a very simple test script is as below. If I run the script on
> UNIX, it is all good. But on Windows, it gives the error "<< was unexpected
> at this time."
I assume that error comes from cmd.exe when it tries to execute
the line
> sqlplus -S "/as sysdba" <<SQLEND
It has been a long time since I wrote DOS/Windows style batch files, but
I doubt that cmd.exe has learned about here documents since then.
> Can anyone please advise what I needed to change to get both
> running for UNIX and Windows?
Use DBI. Seriously. use DBI.
If you really can't, you could write the input to sqlplus into a
temporary file and then invoke it like
sqlplus -S "/as sysdba" <$tmpfile.
Or you could use IPC::Open2 (but I'm not sure whether that works on
Windows).
hp
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