Jeff and Kevin,

Thanks for your input and assistance with my post. I'll work on the this over the next week and post a new topic question if/when I have one.

Have a great weekend,

-TechQA

I'm writing a Perl script to run queries against a Tivoli TSM (backup system) database to define the status of a list of tape volumes. Each day there will be a different list of tape volume numbers that I need to have this script process (In Perl-speak, I think this is a subroutine that will 'read' the first line of a text file, place it into the query, save the output to a new text file and repeat the process until it has read through all lines...

Hi Jeff,

I have two books: "Learning Perl" and "Perl Core Language Little Black Book". I'm a newbie working on my first script and am more confused the more I read. I understand how this forum works and am not not looking for someone to write a script for me, but any suggestions (and direction assistance) on the correct type of Perl topics I should be reviewing (ie: subroutines, etc.) would be very helpful to me....

Hi,

I need to have a Perl script run a query command using ten different input variables that exist in a separate text file and save the output of each query into the same (new) external text file.

Questions:
1. What are the proper Perl terminologies that define my objectives (ie: subroutines, etc.)?

2. Can you direct me to any links that will give me examples / test scripts?

Thanks...