Well, that worked very well, unfortunately, it created another problem, the $TheRec = $_; is now empty. Therefore, the entire table, while populated with 1374 lines, is empty.
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Well, unless you're sure that $TheRec is left empty, in which
case we should start there, I'd look at your other while() loops.
For example, the next one: while ($NewItem[$z]) { ... }
will fail similarly to your old while (<IN>) loop.
To rectify this one, for instance, you might need to switch to
something more like while(defined($NewItem[$z]))
or somesuch.
Although there's nothing really wrong with the way you
expressed this, by the way, it is more idiomatic to write
the loop like this:
# Itterate over the contents of the @NewItem list
# For each item in the list, set $item to the value
# (equivalent to $NewItem[$z] in your code)
foreach my $item (@NewItem) {
# And add this value in like you did before.
$SQLString = $SQLString . $item . "\',\'";
}
And even that's a little more loose that it could be.
At any rate, go back and refactor your code, looking for more
places to stick watch for the defined-but-false condition. And
be sure that $TheRec is actually coming back blank.
Hope this helps!
--jwest
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