in reply to Re: Best way to call DBI query
in thread Best way to call DBI query

>I believe this is because shift() is diffrent than shift. Calling shift() i believe forces shift to be called with no arguments, rather than with @_ as is done when called without parens.

If you are right, why does the following work correctly: 

sub AnySub {
  my @list = @{ shift() }; # automatic dereferencing list
  ...

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Re: Re: Re: Best way to call DBI query
by MZSanford (Curate) on Mar 14, 2002 at 14:58 UTC
    In that case, i stand (well, sit actually), corrected. Was worth a shot.
    As a side comment, i assume something is assigning a database handle to the $self object, and that $self has a param() method which returns that value. You probably shoud be checking defined($dbh) to make sure the Database connection was successful, and that nothing has gone wrong to this point.
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