Hello Monks!

I am using DBI::SQLite in memory: 
my $sqlite = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=:memory:","","");

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I am then creating a database, populating it, and then using the following to write it to disk: 
$sqlite->sqlite_backup_to_file("/tmp/mydb.sqlite");

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But, instead of writing the results to a file, I would actually like to assign that to a scalar (there are more things I need to do with it, and it would be faster than reading/writing a file on disk).

So, something along the lines of: 

my $database;

$sqlite->sqlite_backup_to_file( $database );

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... is what I am looking for. I've looked around and tried a few different ways, but without any luck.

Thanks for your help!

In reply to SQLite in memory database to scalar by Rodster001

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