Re: documentation suggestion: explain strings, numbers, and binding "gotcha".

2001-04-03 Thread Jim Mahoney
Tim Bunce wrote: > > The "gotcha" is when I put in the following > > (fairly innocuous) line into the "... other code here ..." > > block. > > > > $if ($id == -1) { print " Ooops - illegal ID \n"; } > > That'll generate a warning in perl if warnings are enabled. Good point; thank you. I ran ac

Re: documentation suggestion: explain strings, numbers, and binding "gotcha".

2001-04-03 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:53:10PM -0400, Jim Mahoney wrote: > > I recently spent more time than I'd like to admit > trying to understand a bug in my DBI program, and > now that I understand what's going on, I'm writing > to suggest that the documentation show better how the type > conversion f

Re: documentation suggestion: explain strings, numbers, and binding "gotcha".

2001-04-02 Thread Chris Winters
* Jim Mahoney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010402 22:03]: > > I recently spent more time than I'd like to admit > trying to understand a bug in my DBI program, and > now that I understand what's going on, I'm writing > to suggest that the documentation show better how the type > conversion from perl sc

documentation suggestion: explain strings, numbers, and binding "gotcha".

2001-04-02 Thread Jim Mahoney
I recently spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to understand a bug in my DBI program, and now that I understand what's going on, I'm writing to suggest that the documentation show better how the type conversion from perl scalars to SQL data types works in the DBI - because it sure di