Re: How to get data from MySQL with perl

2002-06-05 Thread Eivind A. Sivertsen
Here's an example: - #! /usr/bin/perl use Mysql; $dbh = Mysql->connect("localhost", "verycooldatabase", "", ""); $query = "select this from that"; $sth = $dbh->query($query); // returns one row at the time in array @arr while(@arr = $sth->fetchrow) { foreach $data (@arr) print(

How to get data from MySQL with perl

2002-06-04 Thread Anton
How do I query a database with Perl - retrieve a item and then have that as a var to use in another insert statement Currently I have : Use DBI I define: my vars : host,db,username,password etc I create my db object etc I used the script to do a insert to my db and it worked fine - but I can