I have researched this on the Net for about a week now and after having some good and bad luck, have come to the Monks for their wisdom.

I am new to Perl and had never programmed anything until about a month ago. Additionally, I have no experience with SQL or databases in general, so please have patience.

I have a CSV file consisting of two values per line, a server name and a NIC driver version. I need to find the corresponding server name within an Access database and insert the driver value into the proper field in the same row.

When I run my script, I get the following errors:
Bareword found in conditional at C:\Perl\scripts\test\newer.pl line 43.
Use of uninitialized value in split at C:\Perl\scripts\test\newer.pl line 26.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Perl\scripts\test\newer.pl line 33.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Perl\scripts\test\newer.pl line 35. "DBD::ODBC::db prepare failed: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Syntax error in INSERT INTO statement. (SQL-42000)(DBD: st_prepare/SQLPrepare err=-1) at C:\Perl\scripts\test\newer.pl line 36.
Can't call method "execute" on an undefined value at C:\Perl\scripts\test\newer.pl line 37."

here is my amateur code:

#! c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -w
#
# InsertDrivers.pl

#Importations and Declarations
use Win32::ODBC;
use DBI;
my $DSN='Database';
my $field1='server';
my $field2='nic1_drv_version';
my ( $dbh,
     $sth1,
     $sth2,
     $vals,
     $driver,
     $servlist,
     $row,
     $sqlstatement1,
     $sqlstatement2,
     @row);

#Open file for reading
open(INPUT,"file.txt") || die;
while (INPUT)
    {
    my ($servlist, $driver)=split(/,/);
    #Connect to database
    my $dbh=DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN", "admin", "") or die "$DBI::e
+rrstr\n";
    $sqlstatement1=("SELECT server, nic1_drv_version FROM Servers");
    $sth1=$dbh->prepare($sqlstatement1);
    $sth1->execute || die;
    @row=$sth1->fetchrow_array();
    foreach ("$row\n" eq "$field1\n")
            {
            $sqlstatement2=("INSERT INTO Servers ($field2) VALUES ($dr
+iver)");
            $sth2=$dbh->prepare($sqlstatement2);
            $sth2->execute || die;
            }
close (INPUT);
$sth1->finish;
$sth2->finish;
$dbh->disconnect;
}

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Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

2003-04-16 edit ybiC: replace square bracket chars with appropriate html entities, to eliminate unintended PM links

In reply to Updating Specific Fields in MS Access by Anonymous Monk

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