Hi all,

thanks for your replies. You have to forgive me; I am very new to perl !! And to add insult to injury, I had stepped away from it for a while ... other projects!

my first post is what I had ended up with after many, many failed attempts. Originally I had.

my ($mb_award,$mb_accept);

$dbh=$db->prepare("SELECT mb_award,mb_accept FROM Items WHERE itemnum=$form{'item'} AND seller=$fdnum AND

closef='1'");
$dbh->execute();
($mb_award,$mb_accept) = $dbh->fetchrow_array();


my $mb_amount_disp;

if ($mb_award > "0.00") {
$mb_amount_disp = $mb_award;
}
elsif ($mb_accept > "0.00") {
$mb_amount_disp = $mb_accept

I was thinking I was "using up my variable" somewhere ..... so I put the same query in again. it is strange that this is only working for the mb_accept column...

I am using MySql for the database and the default values for the two columns are 0.00 . Entries will be made in the rows mb_accept or mb_award; never both! I need this bit of code to see which row the entry has been made in, and then display the amount. I tried using edoc's snippet ...

if ($mb_award > 0) {
$mb_amount_disp = $mb_award;
} elsif ($mb_accept > 0) {
$mb_amount_disp = $mb_accept;
}

but i still end up with the same result! Nothing... it doesn't even display the default value 0.00

thanks again,

-paul


In reply to Re: (2) Need help with DBI by Anonymous Monk
in thread DBI compare columns problem by th3monk3y

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