I've never used DBI before. So I am doing something wrong here but I can't find it. Using sqlplus I get a return of about 200 rows. Using this script I get a return of 1?? The only thing I can think is that I am processing the query output incorrectly because the script seems to be taking the same amount of time running the query as sqlplus does.

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$dbh    = &ora_login($DB,$UN,$PW) or
              die("Oracle login FAILED.");

$sql    = "select distinct(clli) from gvc_traffic30";

$cursor = &ora_open($dbh,$sql) or die("Failed query (bad query?). $!\n
+");
@MYARRAY= &ora_fetch($cursor) or die("Failed to get return from query.
+ $!\n");

foreach my $clli ( @MYARRAY ) {
    chomp($clli);
    $c++;

    if ( /\W/ ) {
    print "Found bad character in line $c.";
    } else {
    print "This clli appears to be OK.";
    }
    print " : $clli\n";
}

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The script is supposed to grab a list of items from the database that have either been stored properly or have been stored with improper characters in them. I will eventually get to fixing that but for now I am using my problem as a way or learning DBI. I am only concerned with seeing the data in the table for now (plus of course sorting each row out with non-alphanumerics in them).

I have tried for loops, foreach loops (above), and while loops (of course didn't work)...none of which seem to work so I can only assume that I am not getting the proper data into the proper data type somehow... ???

My current output is:

$ perl traffic.pl
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at traffic.pl line 3
+6.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at traffic.pl line 41.
This clli appears to be OK. :
$

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Suggestions would be very much appreciated.

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- Jim

Edit: chipmunk 2001-08-20

In reply to Using Oraperl for the first time... (was: Using DBI for the first time...) by snafu

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