What is gojng on today?

A general blindness?

What this poor fellow was asking is what to do in case of an empty record set.

using $sth->rows is dead wrong. rows is used in non-select statements.

Somebody suggested using $sth->fetchrow_arrayref in void context, without catching the result anywhere. Wow!

The simple way is

$sth->execute();
my $recordset = $sth->fetchall_arrayref();
if (@$recordset) {
   # there are records. Do something here
}
else {
   # empty recordset. Do something else.
}

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Or, if you don't want to get all records at once

my $found = 0;
while (my $rec = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref()) {
   #do something
   $found = 1;
}
unless ($found) {
   # recordset was empty.
   # do something else
}

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In reply to Re: if (empty record set) by Anonymous Monk
in thread if (empty record set) by chuleto1

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