Thanks Steve, That was the solution.
Cheers, Levon Barker > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Mayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 11:41 AM > To: Levon Barker > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Perl + Oracle + Blobs + PDFs - Dumping to filesystem > > > Levon, > > You might try using the binmode function on your filehandle: > > open FH, ">$binObjId.pdf"; > binmode FH; > print FH, $contents; > close FH; > > > Steve > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:26:52AM -0400, Levon Barker wrote: > > Hello List! > > > > Have a quick question that I am sure someone knows the answer to. I > > switching from handling long raw data in Oracle to only storing > a pointer to > > the file on the file system. I am dealing mostly with PDFs. > > > > The process seems/ed pretty easy: select the contents of the > longvar column > > into a perl variable and then save it to the file system. > > So I do something like this: > > > > while ($sth->fetch()) { > > open FH, ">$binObjId.pdf"; > > print FH, $contents; > > close FH; > > } > > > > That almost works. > > > > After this runs on a coulple of files, I try to open one, and the PDF > > reports that the file is damaged and also none of the jpgs that were > > embedded in the PDF show up. Acrobat tells me that there is insufficient > > data to display the image. > > > > So I am guessing that 'print FH, $contents' is a bad way to get > the pdf to > > the file system. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Levon Barker > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
