$sqlStr = "select createwbparserun( '$directory' , '$filename' ) "; print $sqlStr. "\n" ; my $sth = $db_in->prepare( $sqlStr ); $sth->execute(); my @aRow = $sth->fetchall_arrayref([0]); print Dumper @aRow; my @ta = $aRow[0]; print Dumper @ta; print " the array: " . $ta[0][0] . "\n" ; ## $wb_runkey = $aRow[0]; print "WORKBOOK run key: " . $wb_runkey . "\n" ;