You don't _have_ to specify the columns as gav^ rightly points out. BUT! You don't have to use strict either. ;)

The problem is this line: 

my($TN,$Question,$AnswerA,$AnswerB,$AnswerC,$AnswerD,$Correct)=...

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What happened to Answer E? :)

What you end up with is trying to insert only 7 variables where DBI is expecting 8.

In the long run though, follow the advice of Chmrr, dws, and Ovid. It will keep you out of trouble.

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
F--F--F--F--F--F--F--F--
(the triplet paradiddle)

P.S. Brownie points to adamsj for spotting this error too.

P.P.S Or i could be completely wrong about Answer E. I now see that you are indeed assigning the variable $AnswerE to "NULL", which is not the same as NULL. Use undef instead, but you really should specify $AnswerE in the split, i think. How about this instead: 

foreach my $element(@Array){
   chomp $element;
   # define $STH as you did
   $STH->execute(split/\|/,$element,8);
}

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As long as you really include Answer E with the rest in the data file, this code allows you to avoid using temp variables - just pass the output of split. Of course, you might want to do some validation, passing the contents without validating them is not a good thing.

In reply to (jeffa) 2Re: Inserting values into a MySQL database by jeffa
in thread Inserting values into a MySQL database by TStanley

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