> Still OT
> Chris, what is AoAs ?

As Dave Burt noted, AoA is "array of arrays", like

[[A,B,C,],[1,2,3],[X,Y,Z]] for instance.  Ruby's array handling is nifty.

> At my current site, I use WATiR, but cannot do any DB work in Ruby,
> because the DB (DB2 on zOS) doesn't allow ODBC connections.

I'm using DB2 on AS/400 (!!!) at the moment.  IBM supplies a nice DB2
ODBC interface for Windows through their "iSeries Navigator" suite of
tools, and Ruby's ODBC drivers plays very nicely with it.

You need to
> access certain sys/admin tables to get an ODBC connection, and we don't
> have even select rights on those. I cannot get the Ruby DB2 driver to
> work on my 'doze box. So, Perl + DBD::DB2.

I can't help with your permissions.  =)
BTW, I guess it's not a big secret, but:  I *like* Perl.  I'm working
in a culture that's excited about Ruby.  And right now I have no need
for Watir.  So I could actually do my current work in either Ruby or
Perl, and it's just more funner right now in Ruby. It's also nice to
have Plan B:  the moment I run into something Ruby can't do, I'll
happily switch to Perl.  Nice to have alternatives...

Look through the archives and you'll see mention of my handling
Javascript popups with a Perl Win32::GuiTest layer.  I still think
that's a valid approach, with all due respect to the Wet and AutoIT
fans.

-Chris

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