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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • For a secret project I worked on (which will eventually may DBD::Something) it was easier to write a new regex based SQL-like parser. SQL::Statement (a few months ago) was too strict, and didn't allow me to bend the rules.
    • SQL::Statement (a few months ago) was too strict, and didn't allow me to bend the rules.

      I had a conversation about this very topic with Jeff Zucker a few weeks ago, because I had the same issues with SQL::Statement. He pointed me at SQL::Parser, upon which SQL::Statement is based, and which is much more flexible. You simply need to subclass SQL::Parser, and override the methods that aren't flexible enough for you.

      Also, the guts of SQL::Parser are regex-based, and Jeff seems pretty open to accepting ideas and patches, so you might want to talk to him about contributing your improvements / modifications.

      --
      (darren)
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