On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:10:18AM +1100, Ron Savage wrote: > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:22:09 +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:05:33AM +1100, Ron Savage wrote: > > >>5) At the end of this sub, I added code to return something :-): > >>\%col_info; > > > >That's not right. It was returning the $sth (see the definition of > >column_info). > >An explicit > > return $sth; > >would be better. > > I expected it (Perl) to return the last expression, here $sth, but > that simply doesn't work, in the sense that the caller does not > reveive any information. Hence my brute force fix.
Odd. I cut-n-pasted the code from a working system. Tim.
