Hey Monks,

I'm trying to get information from a database into an array in Perl. The database (MySQL) has company names each as a separate row. There are about 300. I would like to put these into an array called "@companies". Its been a long time since i've worked with Perl ... 

$dsn = "DBI:mysql:yip;db.yip.com";
$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,'me','pass');        
$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT company FROM company_public;");
$sth->execute(@companies);
$dbh->disconnect;

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I thought that this (above) might put the values into the array for me, but no go on this first try. What do you think?

thanks Monks,

Penguin In The Dark

In reply to Getting MySQL Data into an Array. by cdherold

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