Magic Kishor
I'm learning a lot as I study Perl and now SQLite and your invaluable
assistance did the trick.
The key lines now read:
my $newdata = $ref->{icon};
binmode OUTPUT;
print OUTPUT $newdata;
Many thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: P Kishor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2007 3:07 p.m.
To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org
Subject: Re: [sqlite] Reading Blob data using Perl
can't help you all the way, but below are a few comments --
On 10/16/07, Brian Rowlands (Greymouth High School)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> I'm hoping someone can help me explain how to fix a problem I have
> with reading a Blob field from a SQLite DB using Perl. My long term
> aim is to not save it to a file but use it within my application and
> store it as a label bitmap. However, first things first.
>
> This code reads the Blob but when I view the bmp file created it is
> distorted - as though the bits have been wrapped around and ones I'd
> expect on the right are on the left of the image in the prevw. Looking
> at the icon in the SQLite DB all is well.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> use DBI;
> use Cwd;
> use Win32::GUI::BitmapInline ();
> our $datafile = getdcwd()."\\mydatabase.db";
>
> # suck icon from SQLite database,
> my @array;
> my $dbh = DBI-> connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=$datafile","","",{}); #
> database handle
> my $sql = "SELECT icon FROM icons WHERE name = 'logo'";
> my $sth = $dbh-> prepare($sql); # statement handle
>
> # must have this next line but DONT KNOW WHY my $numrows =
> $sth->execute;
The line above is where you actually make your program do some work.
After all those declarations, you have to execute the statement, and
that is precisely what you are doing above. That is why you need the
above line, and without it nothing will work.
>
> open OUTPUT, ">output.bmp";
> my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref;
> my $newdata = $$ref{'icon'};
I would write the above line as
my $newdata = $ref->{icon};
now, somewhere here, don't you require some binmode magic like so,
particularly on Windows
binmode OUTPUT;
> print OUTPUT $newdata;
> close OUTPUT;
>
> $sth->finish;
> undef $sth;
> $dbh->disconnect();
>
>
> Q1. Why is the line my $numrows = $sth->execute; essential? If it is
> not present I can't view the image file at all and I get a message
> that preview is not available.
> Q2. How do I fix it so the bmp file displays perfectly?
>
>
> Thanks
> Brian Rowlands
> We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite
> hope.
> Martin Luther King Jr. </quotes/k/martinlutherking/>
>
>
>
>
--
Puneet Kishor
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