Hi cLive,

I tried $DBI::errstr last night, and I got a bunch of Win32 errors (couldn't find cmd.exe, etc), which is normal, since I'm running under Linux. I'm still trying to figure this one out.

I did a bit more digging in my Perl books (Perl in a Nutshell, O'Reilly, section 12.3), and it seems that errstr should be used in the following manner:

$dbHandle->errstr

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as opposed to 
$DBI::errstr

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I'm not familliar enough with Perl to say if these two statements are equivalent, but I'll look into it tonight as well.

Finally, the reason I've been referring to $DBI::errmsg is because it's what's written in O'Reilly's MySQL & mSQL book. I don't have the book handy right now, but I'll double check to make sure I'm not making a fool out of myself during my first impression. I'm sure there will be ample opportunity for that later. :-)

Nat

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: DBI connection through CGI by Phemur
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