Hello again,

1) Is there a method to get the field name and corresponding field data from a database - or do you have to manually insert the field names.
i.e.
43  $sth=$dbh->prepare("select * from people where name=?");
44  $sth->execute($name);                                      
45  my @ar = $sth->fetchrow_array();                            
46          foreach $ar (@ar) {                                 
47                  print "$ar \n";                             
48          }                                                   
49  $sth->finish;

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When I do a simple select from a large table it just gives the field data only
name doug
last mitchell
phone 1234567
address house
colour blue

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But if I do a select like this in perl - I just get: 

doug
mitchell
1234567
house
blue

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Anyway to get the field name with the field data. I would like to grab this info from many table reusing the code - and some table have 100 field names....

Thanks!

V

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In reply to Getting Column Names from DBI? by vivekvp

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