You would do exactly what you do when calling a subroutine in Perl: you pass it a list of arguments. Read the manual page of DBI, or whatever database interface you are using about how to pass parameters to stored procedures.

But I wouldn't do it that way. It's so.... not SQL-ish. I'd use the database's bulk copy feature to read in the CSV file into a temporary table. Then I'd modify the stored procedure to read the data from the temp table and insert it into the real table. No Perl needed, unless the database isn't able to read in a CSV file (most databases can). In which case I'd write a simple DBI program, using DBI::CVS to read in the CVS file, and DBI::whatever to write it to the temp table.

Abigail

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.