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Did you try to print out the $query and then execute the resulting SQL manually?

Leonid Mamtchenkov aka TVSET

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Re: Re: Extracting data from a pipe delimited text file into a table in Access
by Anonymous Monk on May 05, 2003 at 13:04 UTC
    when i print out $query i get
    insert into Held_Receipts values (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)
    my code is as follows:
    # !/usr/bin/perl -w
    use strict;
    use DBI qw(:sql_types);
    my $dsn = "dbi:ODBC:Daily_Rec";
    my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,'','', {RaiseError=>1,PrintError=>1,AutoCommit=>1} );
    open(DAT, "c:/Temp/heldreceipts_TempFile.txt") or die "could not open Held Receipts file: $!";
    my $query = qq{insert into Held_Receipts values (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)};
    print $query;
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($query) or die "cannot prepare query: $DBI::errstr";
    while(<DAT>)
    {
    chomp;
    my @line = split /\|/;
    $sth->execute(@line)
    or die "Execute error: $DBI::errstr";
    }
    $sth->finish();
    $dbh->disconnect();
    There are no errors when i run this code. But the table Held_Receipts is blank. If i use the import feature in access to import the text file, I get all my records into the table Held_Receipts I am completely stumped on this one!!!