Thank you!  That worked and it returned the result set of my sql query.

Can I bother you with another question - how do I open up a file and
redirect the result set into it?


Deb Vredeveld



                                                                                       
                                       
                      Ronald J Kimball                                                 
                                       
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                                               Subject:  Re: DBI "Prepare" Statement 
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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:22:23AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Okay thanks, I added "my $dbh;" prior to the subroutine and am still
> receiving the same error.  Here is the code:

Adding a my $dbh outside the subroutine doesn't change the fact that you
still have $dbh lexically scoped inside the subroutine:

> sub db_connect
> {
> use DBI;
> use strict;
>
> my $db_connect = 'DUMY';
> my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:$db_connect","FMC","FMC")
>         or die "Database connection not made: $DBI::errstr";
> }

You could simply change this to:

$dbh = DBI->connect( ... ) or die "...";

to assign to the $dbh which you declare at the top of the file, but it
would probably be better for the subroutine to return the database handle.


use strict;

use DBI;

my $dbh = db_connect();

sub db_connect {
  my $db_connect = 'DUMY';
  my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:$db_connect","FMC","FMC")
      or die "Database connection not made: $DBI::errstr";
}



Ronald




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