no rows selected

2005-01-28 Thread Mark Martin
Hi, I'm running a test to see whether certain criteria in a SELECT statement return record or not. If I get a no rows selected from SQL then I want to perform a specific action . But I don't how perform the test for no rows selected ? $sql = qq{SELECT RECORD FROM TABLE WHERE FIELD

RE: no rows selected

2005-01-28 Thread Reidy, Ron
If fetchrow() retrieves no data, the while loop terminates. - Ron Reidy Lead DBA Array BioPharma, Inc. -Original Message- From: Mark Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 5:58 AM To: dbi-users@perl.org Subject: no rows selected Hi, I'm running

Re: no rows selected

2005-01-28 Thread Hardy Merrill
Mark, you would typically do something like this: my $ct_rows_processed = 0; while (@fetch = $sth-fetchrow) { $ct_rows_processed++; ### do stuff with a row of data ### } ### end while If ($ct_rows_processed = 0) { ### perform no rows selected tasks

Re: no rows selected

2005-01-28 Thread Mark Martin
If ($ct_rows_processed = 0) { ### perform no rows selected tasks here ### } HTH. Hardy Merrill Mark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/28/05 7:58 AM Hi, I'm running a test to see whether certain criteria in a SELECT statement return record or not. If I get a no rows selected from SQL then I