This post is more about trying to find a cleaner way to accomplish my task. I use DBI a lot but I am curious if there is a better way to populate and array with the returned value when only a single field is returned. Example ---


SELECT `UserName` FROM Account a, asscAccountAccountGroup aaag, asscRoleAccountGroup arag, Role r WHERE a.Id = aaag.AccountId AND aaag.AccountGroupId = arag.AccountGroupId AND arag.RoleId = r.Id AND r.Name = 'ROLE_REVIEWER';

I have always acomplished this by doing the following -- 

 my @regUsers;
 
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT `UserName` FROM Account a, asscAccount
+AccountGroup aaag, asscRoleAccountGroup arag, Role r WHERE a.Id = aaa
+g.AccountId AND aaag.AccountGroupId = arag.AccountGroupId AND arag.Ro
+leId = r.Id AND r.Name = 'ROLE_REVIEWER';") || die "Cannot prepare th
+e query :$!";
$sth->execute() || die "Cannot execute the query :$!";

while ( my @userRows = $sth->fetchrow_array() ) { push @regUsers, @use
+rRows; }

print join("\n",@regUsers);

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Which always works as expected but I'd like to simplify that code if possibe.

Doing the following seems to return a list of references but is close -- 

my @users = $dbh->selectall_array("SELECT `UserName` FROM Account a, a
+sscAccountAccountGroup aaag, asscRoleAccountGroup arag, Role r WHERE 
+a.Id = aaag.AccountId AND aaag.AccountGroupId = arag.AccountGroupId A
+ND arag.RoleId = r.Id AND r.Name = 'ROLE_REVIEWER'");

print join("\n",@users);

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Thanks for the suggestions

In reply to Populating an array via a DBI call - simplified by edimusrex

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