Hi Paul, Thanks for your reply. > The problem here is to do with $anz_dbf_db. > > You have correctly noted that this is an array reference. To print in out you > have used "@$anz_dbf_db", which has printed the elements of the array, > separated by spaces. This has shown you that there is one element of the > array, 141.
Sorry, but no - since I do a 'select count(*)...' I get back exactly one value representing the number of matches from the select. So this '141' is the result of the sql... > However, when using the array in a comparison, you have used > @$anz_dbf_db again, but this time in scalar context. Here, you have asked > for the number of elements in the array, which is one. You can test this by > adding DEBUG(scalar @$anz_dbf_db); This is why the comparison is failing - > 1 != 141. > > So you should really be testing against $anz_dbf_db->[0] in your comparison. > Or better yet, in section two you should make $anz_dbf_db the actual > number you are looking for, rather than the array ref you are getting back. I changed my code to the following: my $anz_dbf_db_select = $dbh->selectcol_arrayref($sth); # holt alle Inhalte der 1. Spalte in eine Array-REFERNZ!!! $sth->finish(); my $anz_dbf_db; if ( ! @$anz_dbf_db_select ) { # Array-REFERENZ!!!, Error, wenn DB nicht gelesen werden kann <-- changed the variable name here LOGWARN("$fnc - Datenbank konnte nicht gelesen werden: $DBI::errstr\n"); $rcs { "$fnc" } = (1); } else { $anz_dbf_db = $$anz_dbf_db_select[0]; # <-- and saved the value into another scalar here } Works fine now - thank you so much for your help! :-) Cheers, Nora -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/