Here's some more verbose code: 

use strict;
use Win32::ODBC;
my $DSN = "DRIVER=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb);FIL=MSAccess;DriverI
+d=25;DBQ=c:\\my documents\\test.mdb";

my $db;
my $query = "SELECT * FROM Books";

if (!($db = new Win32::ODBC($DSN)))
{
    print "Error connecting to $DSN\n";
    print "Error: " . Win32::ODBC::Error() . "\n";
}

if( $db->Sql($query) )
{
    print "Error executing query [ \"$query\" ]\n";
    print "Error: " . Win32::ODBC::Error() . "\n";
}

# Debug stuff, to show return results:
# $db->DumpData();

while( $db->FetchRow() )
{
    my %fields = $db->DataHash;

    print "$fields{'BookID'}: $fields{'Book Title'}\n";
}

$db->Close();

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I reckon if you added error checking like this, you'd find that you're getting an error connecting to your datasource, and hopefully enough information to solve your problem?

PS: I'd reccomend you create a user account here, and log on with it, as you then get notified when people answer you at logon.

--
RatArsed

In reply to Re (4): MS Access DB and WIN32::ODBC or ADO by RatArsed
in thread MS Access DB and WIN32::ODBC or ADO by Anonymous Monk

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