Re^6: How to add quotes to comma separated values in a String (updated)

[Laurent_R]

Hi haukex,

first, I'm really sorry, I should not have used the work "dogmatic." I understand it might be considered a bit derogatory, and I really did not mean that.

Then, whether you're using the DBI quote subroutine or the core Perl solutions I suggested, you need to validate the input data beforehand anyway if it's coming from an external source.

I was perfectly happy with the solutions you suggested (and I think I said so), I only reacted to the sentence: "this is the very least you should do - don't go and try to quote the strings yourself."

Finally, I really think that somebody learning Perl and not knowing how to quote a bunch of words should learn how to do it in pure Perl first.

I have seen recently at our job some interns knowing apparently almost everything about the Symphony framework and not being really able to write five lines of correct PHP (I even had to help them and fix their code although my knowledge of PHP is close to nothing).

With all due respect to what Your Mother and you said, I think developers should learn to do things the hard way in the language they use before using props and crutches available in packages, libraries, modules, and frameworks. Well, maybe I am wrong, after all, I must admit that don't know how the library that I use computes the sin function. Perhaps it is just me being too old school.

[haukex]

No worries, no offense taken :-) On a different day, I might have posted both solutions.

Coming from the perspective of learning Perl, I completely agree with you that learning the basics first is the better way to go. When I learned e.g. the Fourier transform, our professor first had us do it entirely by hand for a while, before we learned how to use the tables. The tables are of course much easier to use, but I still think it was important to know the "hard way" of doing it.

Coming from the perspective of someone Googling and looking for a quick solution to copy-and-paste, I think showing the more robust one first and making clear that it's the "better" solution is better. After all, maybe someone will implement Stack Overflow Autocomplete for Perl someday ;-)