I am working with huge ASCII text files and large text fields.
As needs and wants have changed, I will be reprocessing data we have already gone through to see if more records can be extracted.
I will need to compare strings to ensure that records I am inserting into our SQL Sever 2000 database are not duplicates of records already there.
I have come up with two ways:
(1) use string length (number of characters a string holds):
$length = length($name);
If both strings are identical in length, I have a duplicate and would cease processing.
(2) compare strings (or 200-characer substrings thereof) directly:
if ( $str1 eq $str2 )
{
....
}
Does this sound sane to you folks? If anyone has a better way, don't be shy.
-- Craig
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