Hi The error messages I'm getting from the attempted insert are:
C:\perlp>perl t.pl DBD::SQLite::db do failed: no such column: cash at t.pl line 17, <DATA> line 1. DBD::SQLite::db do failed: no such column: cash at t.pl line 17, <DATA> line 2. DBD::SQLite::db do failed: no such column: credit at t.pl line 17, <DATA> line 3 DBD::SQLite::db do failed: no such column: cash at t.pl line 17, <DATA> line 4. DBD::SQLite::db do failed: no such column: credit at t.pl line 17, <DATA> line 5 DBD::SQLite::db do failed: no such column: credit at t.pl line 17, <DATA> line 6 The code and the input data are: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use DBI; my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=mydb.txt","",""); die $! unless $dbh; # customer vendor transType productCode appNumber resultCode $dbh->do(qq{ CREATE TABLE sales (customer int, vendor int, type char(10), product int, app int, result int) }); my $sql_fmt = "INSERT INTO sales VALUES(%d, %d, %s, %d, %d, %d)"; while(<DATA>) { my $sql = sprintf $sql_fmt, split; $dbh->do($sql); } __DATA__ 10112 6768 cash 01020 00780 1 10112 6768 cash 01020 00780 0 10112 6768 credit 00040 01010 1 10112 3650 cash 01840 01200 0 14100 2410 credit 02840 00910 0 14100 5220 credit 01020 00780 1 I don't know why I can't insert for the type field. Thanks, Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>