I have no idea what dbmopen is, but I would seriously recommend
scrapping all of that and just going with DBI and DBD::ODBC (the DBI
driver that allows you to work with ODBC data sources). Here's a small
example of how you can work with DBI to get data from a database using a
DSN you set up on the PC.
######################
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use DBD::ODBC; #this part is not usually necessary,
#but I include it because of other products I use
$| = 1;
print "Connecting to DB...\n\n";
my $dbh =
DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:MyDSNName",'user','password',{odbc_default_bind_t
ype => 12}) or die("Couldn't connect to DB! ".$DBI::errstr);
my $select = "SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Name = 'tjohnson'";
print "Executing Query...\n\n";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($select);
$sth->execute();
while( my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref() ){
foreach my $key( sort keys %$ref ){
print "$key => ".$ref->{$key}."\n";
}
}
print "\n\n";
########################
Note: If you are not using Windows, then ignore the ODBC part and look
up the DBD:: module for your particular database (DBD::MySQL, for
example)
-----Original Message-----
From: hOURS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 8:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: database troubles
Hi,
I'm new to the list. Thanks everyone for having/doing this.
I want to use PERL to work with a database, but I can't seem to get
PERL to open the databases on my computer. <snip>
%A = ();
dbmopen(%A, "hOURSexperim.dbf", 0600) or die "Not gonna open it.\n";
<snip>
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