Sorry about the long title.

Basically, I'm trying to use DBI to call a stored procedure with one of the parameters containing an ASCII NUL character. What I've tried so far: 

my $packed = pack("i", 15);
$packed .= '$';
# #1
$sth = $dbh->prepare("exec my_proc ?");
$sth->execute($packed);

# #2
$sth = $dbh->prepare("exec my_proc $packed");
$sth->execute();

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What I think the problem is is that the pack('i',15)<code> makes <code>"^@^@^@^O", where ^@ is ASCII NUL. So, when this gets passed, perl somehow sees this as the end of string (just like in C), and stops processing the string. Is there some way to pass this in without having perl interpret the NUL's?

thanks,
thor

In reply to Calling a Sybase Procedure with NUL in a parm by thor

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