Hi all,

I have just started using the Perl DBI module to interface with a mySQL database and it's been so easy to get up and running in no time at all!

But, alas, I am confused...

I have a select query that works and returns the correct results, however I can only get at the results if I call "fetchrow_array" on the results? (you'll noitice I'm doing this in while loop that does nothing) Is this necessary?

my $sql_is = qq{ SELECT count(*) FROM files WHERE (geo="$geo" AND lob=
+"is" AND country="$key") };

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I'm sure I have seen a lot of tutorials saying that I just need to "bind" my results to variables and then I can use them? It seems kind of pointless me doing the following...

$query_is = $dbh->prepare($sql_is);
$query_is->execute();
$query_is->bind_columns(\$count_is);

while ( @row = $query_is->fetchrow_array ) {
    #print "@row\n";
}

print "<tr><td>$value<\/td><td>$count_is<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbs
+p;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/
+td><\/tr>";

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Mindless upvoting to anyone who replies

Thanks

M

In reply to DBI Select results confussion by heezy

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