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From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at peppler dot org>
Subject: RE: A patch proposal to the NULL-value problem on blk_rowxfer
Date: Jun 21 2002 2:48PM
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 06:41, Scott Zetlan wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Zetlan [mailto:scottzetlan@aol.com]
> > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:36 AM
> > To: SYBPERL-L@list.cren.net
> > Subject: RE: A patch proposal to the NULL-value problem on blk_rowxfer
> >
> >
> > 1. The documentation clearly states that SEPARATOR => '|' in the
> > config hash will allow you to use pipes as separators, when in
> > fact it absolutely has to be SEPARATOR => '\|'. I recommend the
> > documentation be changed to include the '\' character, and a note
> > added to indicate why it's there.
>
> It also appears that when a record fails, the error file created contains
> the regular expression as the separator, not the expression matched. For
> example, if the record "a||b" is separated as above, and fails to transfer
> for some reason, the error file includes the record "a\|\|b", which couldn't
> be run back through the same program to reload.
Rats. Off-hand I don't see an obvious way of fixing that - but I'll try
to figure something out (guess I need something that does the opposite
of quotemeta...)
Michael
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