however I can only get at the results if I call "fetchrow_array" on the results?

There are several ways (besides fetchrow_array()) to retrieve results from a query. Which others have you tried using, and what happened?

A suggestion: For a number of reasons that you'll find covered if you search for "bind", it's a good idea to use parameter binding in queries. This looks like: 

  my $sql = <<SQL;
    SELECT count(*)
    FROM files
    WHERE geo=? AND lob="is" AND country=?
  SQL
  my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
  $sth->execute($geo, $country);
  my($count) = $sth->fetchrow_array();
  $sth->finish();

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Since your count(*) query returns a single row of data, you don't need to call it in a loop. It's good form, however, to do   $sth->finish(); when you're done.

(Edited to correct a typo in the code.)

(Eeek. Edited again to correct a worse typo.)

In reply to Re: DBI Select results confussion by dws
in thread DBI Select results confussion by heezy

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