Re: PLPERL

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:23:39PM +0300, Szekely Zsolt-Csaba wrote:

> I want to implement a stored procedure written in plperl
> which is able to evaluate expressions.
> i would like to do something like :
>
> ...
> my ($a,$b,$c);
> $a=1;
> $b=2;
>
> eval ''$c=$a+$b;'';
> return $c;
> ...
> Is it possible to do expression evaluation in plperl or other language?

Huh... why don't you try standard Perl expression evaluation?

... my ($a, $b);
$a = 1;
$b = 2;
return $a + $b;
...

But maybe the answer is too simple, so this isn't really the question?

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