Michael,

First, welcome! I didn't know you were here. Also, thanks for answering on the FreeTDS mailing list; I didn't think there was much overlap between here and there.

I ran with trace on and got the following results, which indicate to me that truncation is taking place somewhere. Time to spend the afternoon installing a newer version of FreeTDS.

    -> fetchrow_hashref in DBD::_::st for DBD::Sybase::st (DBI::st=HAS
+H(0x81d9a58)~0x81d99c8)
2   -> fetch for DBD::Sybase::st (DBI::st=HASH(0x81d99c8)~INNER)
    dbih_setup_fbav for 1 fields => 0x81d9b84
2   <- fetch= [ '2' ] row1 at test3.pl line 23
2   -> FETCH for DBD::Sybase::st (DBI::st=HASH(0x81d99c8)~INNER 'NAME'
+)
2   <- FETCH= [ 'foo' ] at test3.pl line 23
    <- fetchrow_hashref= HASH(0x80fd484)1keys row1 at test3.pl line 23
    -> errstr in DBD::_::common for DBD::Sybase::st (DBI::st=HASH(0x81
+d9a58)~0x81d99c8)
    <- errstr= undef at test3.pl line 25
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Thanks again,
Scott