Comments on: Transforming a Data Layout http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2006/04/19/transforming-a-data-layout/ Wesley R. Elsberry's personal weblog, talking about falconry, science, antievolution, computation, and the broken body he lives in. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Austringer http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2006/04/19/transforming-a-data-layout/comment-page-1/#comment-16707 Austringer Sun, 23 Apr 2006 05:47:11 +0000 http://austringer.net/wp/?p=275#comment-16707 I don't know SQL well enough to do the query that you are talking about... My response to being gotten by the "==" relop is shown in the script: <blockquote> if (1 == \$#ARGV) { </blockquote> When I have a comparison to a literal, I put the literal on the left-hand side. That way, if I have messed up and left an assignment in there, the compiler or interpreter throws a hissy fit about trying to assign to a literal, and I fix it. I don’t know SQL well enough to do the query that you are talking about…

My response to being gotten by the “==” relop is shown in the script:

if (1 == \$#ARGV) {

When I have a comparison to a literal, I put the literal on the left-hand side. That way, if I have messed up and left an assignment in there, the compiler or interpreter throws a hissy fit about trying to assign to a literal, and I fix it.

]]> By: Karen http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2006/04/19/transforming-a-data-layout/comment-page-1/#comment-16705 Karen Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:11:24 +0000 http://austringer.net/wp/?p=275#comment-16705 I'm thinking that if you imported Diane's info into a relational database table (even keeping the original columns of LekID, Year, Number), you could get your information formatted the way you want it in a query with a single Select statement. Nice to see an example of Perl, though. Some of the syntax seems familiar to that of c/c++. (But that "==" gets us all at least once!) -Karen I’m thinking that if you imported Diane’s info into a relational database table (even keeping the original columns of LekID, Year, Number),
you could get your information formatted the way you want it in a query with a single Select statement.

Nice to see an example of Perl, though. Some of the syntax seems familiar to that of c/c++. (But that “==” gets us all at least once!)

-Karen

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