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A MySQL related PERL question from a relative newbie.

I'm trying to get the id # for a press release with a given header ($header). Each header is unique. When I run the code below, however, and check the contents of $header_id, I find it contains the following : DBI::st=HASH(0x81b862c). Not what I need. 

$header_id = $dbh->prepare("SELECT id FROM press_releases WHERE header
+ = '$header'");
$header_id -> execute();

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I checked to see if the id # was in $header_id[0] or $header_id[1], but both were empty (as far as I could tell).

Any advice on how I can get the id# out of the database as a single integer?

thanks

In reply to Retrieval of ID# as Integer from MySQL by cdherold

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