Hi all, i recently found out that i can use DBI's DBD::CSV component to access a text file much like a tabl in a database (with some notable differences). Now i am useg this code below to read a file BUT everytime i run the script it just returns the first line and ignores the remaining.

The file format of the data file is (delimited with "!"s): 

1018884184639!1!2!3!4!5!6!7!8!9!10!11!12!http://www.perlmonks.com!Fri 
+Mar 29 10:32:44 2002!
1017939028902!1!2!3!4!5!6!7!8!9!10!11!12!http://perlmonks.com!Fri Mar 
+29 10:32:44 2002!
1017939144004!1!2!3!4!5!6!7!8!9!10!11!12!http://perlmonks.com!Fri Mar 
+29 10:32:44 2002!

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And here is what my code looks like so far: 

use DBI;


    $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:CSV:f_dir=/export/home/devtools")
        or die "Cannot connect: " . $DBI::errstr;


    # reading "devtools.data" as a table:
    $dbh = DBI->connect(qq{DBI:CSV:csv_sep_char=\\!});
    $dbh->{'csv_tables'}->{'devtools'} = { 'file' => 'devtools.data'};
    $dbh->{csv_tables}->{'devtools'}->{skip_rows} = 0;
    $dbh->{csv_tables}->{'devtools'}->{col_names} =
        [qw(id pp midd fos db dbt dlang fil dtools stools scm tt dest 
+url lastupdate )];

    $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT id, url FROM devtools");
    $sth->execute() or die "Cannot execute: " . $sth->errstr();

#DBI->trace(1);


while ( ( $id, $url) = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
        print "ID is - $id , and url is - $url\n";
}

$sth->finish();

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And this returns (just one record???): 
ID is - 1018884184639 , and url is - http://www.perlmonks.com

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Why is it not going through the whole file? WHat am i not doing right.
Thanks

In reply to reading files with DBD::CSV by data67

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