Hmmm... I did something bad... I loaded a "|" (pipe) delimted file then did an SQL update using the data from my delimted file. Problem is - it inserted escape characters on each update! This messes up the database. But I am not sure where these escape character come from.
Basically the program switches 1 fields data to the one beside it. Here is part of the file: 
ccchg.txt

TOADDE|EQANNB|
TOADDF|EQANNB|
CAABBB|FUAAAF|
OFAAAA|OFAA|  
OFAAAB|OFAA|  
OFAAAC|OFAA|  
OFAAAD|OFAA|

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Here is the code: 
open (CC,"ccchg.txt");
        while ($_=<CC>) {
        push (@CC,$_);
        ($old,$new)=split(/\|/,$_);
        push @old,$old;
        push @new,$new;
        }
close (CC);
$i=@old ## get number of codes
### Attributes to pass to DBI->connect() to disable automatic
### error checking
my %attr = (
    PrintError => 0,
    RaiseError => 0,
);
### Perform the connection using the Informix driver
my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:Informix:nps\@sumitt_dev",
                        "user","password",\%attr )
  or die "Can't connect to database: ", $DBI::errstr, "\n";

$sth=$dbh->prepare("SELECT req_id, ccode
        FROM rtsdet a
        WHERE req_id IN ('48111','15313','45813','15226','48426','7270
+3')
        ");                                                 
$sth->execute();
while ( ($po, $ccode)  = $sth->fetchrow_array() ){
        push (@po,$po);
}
$sth->finish;
$sth=$dbh->prepare("UPDATE rtsdet SET ccode=? WHERE req_id=? AND ccode
+=?");

        foreach $po(@po) {
                for ($count=0; $count<$i;$count++) {
                        $sth->execute($new[$count],$po,$old[$count]);
                        }
                }

$sth->finish;
<code>
OFAA\ 
|     
OFAA\ 
|     
OFAA\ 
|     
OFAA\ 
|     
OFAA\ 
|

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Notice the \ and |. Any idea what is causing these?
apologizes for the bad formatting - trying to delete the spaces deletes all my code when I try - I have to rewrite it all again

Thanks, V
He who laughs last, doesn't get the joke.

2002-03-26 Edit by Corion: Fixed long wrapping line, replaced login information

In reply to VVP:DBI and weird chars by vivekvp

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