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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Matching and replacing text Post 302325590 by KevinADC on Monday 15th of June 2009 03:34:58 PM
Old 06-15-2009
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Originally Posted by xzen123
but ive found no other site that explains how to open a file, create a new file and save the converted text to it.
Then you have not put much effort into using a search engine to find some useful information.

google:

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SQL::ReservedWords::DB2(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      SQL::ReservedWords::DB2(3pm)

NAME
SQL::ReservedWords::DB2 - Reserved SQL words by DB2 SYNOPSIS
if ( SQL::ReservedWords::DB2->is_reserved( $word ) ) { print "$word is a reserved DB2 word!"; } DESCRIPTION
Determine if words are reserved by DB2. METHODS
is_reserved( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either DB2 5, 6, 7 or 8. is_reserved_by_db2v5( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by DB2 5. is_reserved_by_db2v6( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by DB2 6. is_reserved_by_db2v7( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by DB2 7. is_reserved_by_db2v8( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by DB2 8. reserved_by( $word ) Returns a list with DB2 versions that reserves $word. words Returns a list with all reserved words. EXPORTS
Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported: is_reserved is_reserved_by_db2v5 is_reserved_by_db2v6 is_reserved_by_db2v7 is_reserved_by_db2v8 reserved_by words SEE ALSO
SQL::ReservedWords <http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/> AUTHOR
Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org" COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.8.8 2008-03-28 SQL::ReservedWords::DB2(3pm)
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