RE: returning proper info from subroutines

2003-08-27 Thread Dan Muey
Howdy: Howdy I have a script where I want to * connect to database * create a subroutine where it executes and returns the value of the SQL * pass that value to another area to check and IF statement * continue with program I am having problems trying to figure out if the

RE: returning proper info from subroutines

2003-08-27 Thread Johnson, Shaunn
--Thanks for the reply: --I think I'm well on my way, but, I'm looking --at the results and the 'Programming the PERL DBI' --book and it says that selectrow_array returns the --value of the first field. --selectall_arrayref and selectcol_arrayref --doesn't seem to help. --how can I return all

RE: returning proper info from subroutines

2003-08-27 Thread Dan Muey
--Thanks for the reply: --I think I'm well on my way, but, I'm looking --at the results and the 'Programming the PERL DBI' --book and it says that selectrow_array returns the --value of the first field. It returns an array: my ($one,$two,$three) = $dbh-selectrow_array(SELECT

RE: returning proper info from subroutines

2003-08-27 Thread Scott Taylor
At 09:30 AM 08/27/2003, Johnson, Shaunn wrote: --Thanks for the reply: --I think I'm well on my way, but, I'm looking --at the results and the 'Programming the PERL DBI' --book and it says that selectrow_array returns the --value of the first field. --selectall_arrayref and selectcol_arrayref

RE: returning proper info from subroutines

2003-08-27 Thread Johnson, Shaunn
--Howdy: --Sorry, I should have added more detail in --my reply. When I did the posted suggestion, --I only got one column, but if I ran the SQL --by hand, I got them all. --But in the example below, you list out the --variables and then get the entire row. --I thought I could just pull in the

RE: returning proper info from subroutines

2003-08-27 Thread Dan Muey
--Howdy: --Sorry, I should have added more detail in --my reply. When I did the posted suggestion, --I only got one column, but if I ran the SQL --by hand, I got them all. --But in the example below, you list out the --variables and then get the entire row. --I thought I could just