Thanks so much. I got some help offline that did the trick.
The suggestion that worked was to do the following:
my $filename = "out.txt";
open(OUTFILE,">$filename");
$stmt = qq { select * from 2002brochurecontest };
$sth = $dbh->prepare ($stmt);
$sth->execute ();
$count = 0;
while (my $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref())
{
print OUTFILE
"$row->{id}|$row->{t}|$row->{f_name}|$row->{l_name}|$row->{w_phone}|$row->{w
_phone_ext}|$row->{division}|$row->{email}|$row
->{eclub}|$row->{country}|$row->{brochure}|$row->{purchase}\n";
}
$sth->finish();
close(OUTFILE);
Thanks,
Andrew
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From: LRMK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 2:16 PM
To: Hughes, Andrew; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: how to print mysql table to text file backup with perl
where do you want to save your file
on your PC or on the server
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hughes, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:58 AM
Subject: how to print mysql table to text file backup with perl
> I have a mysql table with about 3000 rows of data on which that I need to
> perform a daily backup. Because I am on a shared hosting account I do not
> have administrative rights to the database. To back it up currently I
have
> a script that prints each line of data to the browser delimited with pipes
> using this code:
>
>
> $stmt = qq { select * from 2002brochurecontest };
> $sth = $dbh->prepare ($stmt);
> $sth->execute ();
> $count = 0;
> while (my $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref())
> {
> print
>
"$row->{id}|$row->{t}|$row->{f_name}|$row->{l_name}|$row->{w_phone}|$row->{w
> _phone_ext}|$row->{division}|$row->{email}|$row
> ->{eclub}|$row->{country}|$row->{brochure}|$row->{purchase}",
> br();
> }
> $sth->finish();
>
> I take the output and print it to my browser. Then I cut and paste it
into
> a text file. To avoid this extra step and to learn something new, I would
> like to print the data to a text file. Each day I would just overwrite
the
> same text file with the data, so I would not have to create a new file
every
> time the script runs. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
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