I'm using the DBI fetchall_arrayref to get the rows from an Oracle SQL statement. (I'm using this one as I do not expect many hits.) There are valid conditions when now rows are found. 

  my $result_array  = $sth->fetchall_arrayref;
  foreach my $row (@{$result_array}) {
    print join (",", @$row),"\n";
    print FH join (",", @$row),"\n";
  }

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If I put 
  print "==>@{$result_array}<==\n";

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after the fetchall I get "==><==" which indicates an empty string. Testing for this with the following doesn’t seem to work. 
  if (@{$result_array} eq “”) {
    <some message>
  } else {
    <do the output>
  }

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How do I test for the "nothing here" condition.
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In reply to no rows returned for dbi fetchall_arrayref by essej1

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