>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> Thanks to all for the further discussion on this. After this
Steve> tonight, going back to my original question about reusable code
Steve> for binding columns, this makes for a slicker solution than I
Steve> even though would come from asking the question (and I know
Steve> some of you are slick) :-)
Well, when I first stumbled across bind_columns, I ignored it.
Then I saw someone use it, and I was hooked.
Then I played with
$sth->bind_columns(\my $a, \my $b);
and thought that was really cool, for about five minutes until I came
up with:
$sth->bind_columns(\my($a, $b, $c));
and that stayed in my Very Cool pile until someone asked about a varying
number of columns... so I remembered that \@foo[0..9] means
(\$foo[0], \$foo[1], through \$foo[9]), and came up with:
$sth->bind_columns(\@foo[0..$#col_list]); # @col_list has names
But then you came along with your request, and that got me to think
about a hash slice instead.
So thank you for the question, because now I'm gonna go rewrite some
of my other code!
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