Subject:                Oracle CLOBs through DBI through CGI.pm don't work?
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Date sent:              Wed, 9 May 2001 18:36:12 -0400


jc,

your environment is far beyond my experience, but

> 
> DBI v1.14, DBD::Oracle v1.06
> 
> All, I have a module containing methods I use all the time on IRIX and
> Win32 boxes to pull data stored in CLOB fields from a table stored on a
> Solaris DB machine. For the first time today I tried using this SAME method
> in a perl CGI script and got nothing back.
> 
> No errors, not a whisper of complaint from Oracle. Just silence and no
> data. Has anyone run into this problem before? It seems to be JUST within
> perl CGI scripts. Here's the relevant portion of the subroutine:
> 
> my $sql =<<E_SQL_E;
>      SELECT sequence
>      FROM Clone
>      WHERE isolate_id = $params{-id}
> E_SQL_E

Does

print $params{-id};

really print your isolate ID entered into the form? 
If you are new to CGI.pm, perhaps you mean someting like $query->params('id') ? 

Bodo

Dr. med. Bodo Eing
Institut fuer Medizinische Mikrobiologie
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