-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi thanks .. for telling me tht DBI dont accept $! erm i still have problems though. Theres actually data in the this table made up of 2 columns. But, apparently my query keep returning "0" and "new" which I cant understand why.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use DBI; # connect to the db server my $dbh = DBI -> connect('dbi:mysql:database:hostname:3306', 'xxx'); my $error = $dbh -> errstr; my $sql = "select status_id, description from status"; my $query = $dbh -> prepare($sql); # execute the query $query -> execute ; # return the results my ($results) = $query -> fetchrow_array; print "$results \n"; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+hL2JNgvTa7Hj2AURAgsCAJ9xk4wkpDUB1U6vZyE4TZUQg6pCCwCfU2AL UOyjIwsO7yij9Gjb1n9OQmI= =/EUQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]