Hi,

your script is not complete as some functions are missing and there are some typos which will cause a failure.

Anyway some hints:

1. Put a use warnings; below use strict;.

2. Call your functions simply with func(bla);, forget the ampersand in front of the function name.

3. Please format your code consequently. (indent, spaces)

4. The natural flow of your script could be: connect to db, call function which returns list of object (you can print complex data structures with Data::Dumper), if the list has at least one entry call a function which produces text from the list ( a kind of formatter function), if list is not empty take the generated text and put it to an emailing function.

Answer first question: Mail only when returned list of objects is not empty.

Second question: 

sub putHeader {
    my $db_name = shift;

    my $header = qq{

   $db_name
  ==============
    OWNER       Table    Created


};

    return $header
}

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Third question: 

open my $fh, '|-', 'mailx -s "List report" test@mail' or die "ERROR: C
+ouldn't open pipe: $!";
print $fh $generatedMailText or die "ERROR: Couldn't write to pipe: $!
+";
close $fh or die "ERROR: Closing pipe failed: $!";

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Best regards
McA

In reply to Re: List DB tables by McA
in thread List DB tables by homer4all

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