Greetings fellow monks,
I'm trying to write a tool that changes a specific user's password on many Sybase databases across our environment. The problem that I'm running into is that when I call sp_password from within perl, it outputs it's normal output, whereas I would like to test the return value of sp_password and display it in cannonical form. Allow me to demonstrate:

$sth = $dbh->do(qq(sp_password $sa_password, $new_password, $user)) or
+ die "Couldn't set password on $server\n";

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What this is currently doing is printing this
Password correctly set.
when I actually want it to print nothing, allow me to test for success or failure, and print "SUCCESS" or "FAILURE" accordingly. Any suggestions?

In reply to Avoiding Output in DBI by thor

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