new to perl, please help
 

I am totally new to perl but I know a bit of Ruby and can catch up fast.

Could someone help me get started with my assignment?

I need to write a script that downloads a db file, unzips it, run a select query which returns a count and store it in a text file.

Thanks in advance.

are you looking for someone to deliver you a solution? we aren't here to do your homework for you, sorry.

You didn't have to be so harsh.

There are people who are still eager to learn...
And thats how there are people like you now helping others

If you didn't want to help you didn't have to reply...

Thanks so much for taking time to post your reply.

i wasn't being harsh, you are just going against the rules you explicitly agreed to when you joined the site... http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/rules.html

if you are able to break down what you need, as specific questions about specific issues you're having then that's fine, but you can't expect other members to provide you with a solution verbatim.

For the net connection go to
http://search.cpan.org/~spidb/Net-ex...lib/Net/TCP.pm
If u want to download it from an HTTP server the solution is
http://search.cpan.org/~pgollucci/mo...dlers/http.pod
For the compression:
http://search.cpan.org/~pmqs/IO-Comp...ompress/Zip.pm
For using it as a db (supposing it is a mysql db)
http://search.cpan.org/~rudy/DBD-mys...8/lib/Mysql.pm

If u have specific questions ask but try to do it yourself. :D

this should work