Hi Monks, just wanted to follow up with what i did to get this to finally work. I don't really understand why i had to do it, but maybe one of the Monks will.

The issue is that in an Oracle client (TOAD for example) the following col of a select statement worked, but within perl using DBI it did not. Ultimately, i had to escape the backslash character....so \W+...became....\\W+

From: 

regexp_substr(SDSM2.MSG_BODY,'(:16R:ACCTINFO)\W+(:95[[:alnum:]]*)*\W+:
+97A::SAFE//'||SDSM1.ACT_N||'(.+?):16S:ACCTINFO',1,1,'n') as accnt_inf
+o,

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To: 

regexp_substr(SDSM2.MSG_BODY,'(:16R:ACCTINFO)\\W+(:95[[:alnum:]]*)*\\W
++:97A::SAFE//'||SDSM1.ACT_N||'(.+?):16S:ACCTINFO',1,1,'n') as accnt_i
+nfo,

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After making that change it worked inside perl.

thanks for the help!

In reply to Re^5: Query Does not work in Spreadsheet::WriteExcel by dirtdog
in thread Query Does not work in Spreadsheet::WriteExcel by dirtdog

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