I did a PM search on a similar title and what came up seemed to be even past what little I know of working with MySQL and DBI.

I am currently using:

## TEST get a list of tables
my @tables = $dbh->tables();

for my $i(sort @tables) {

  print uc $i . "\n\n";

  my $sth = $dbh->prepare("LISTFIELDS $i");

  $sth->execute;

  $sth->finish;

  sleep 1;

}

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The code seems good up to the point that I try and grab the column names and list them out. Its when I make the $sth execute that it returns empty. I am sure that my table does contain columns. The code I have is almost identical to the example in the MySQL DBD README.

thanks -c

In reply to Getting a list of columns from a MySQL Table by c

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