Hello monks - much wisdom is needed here! I am charged with reading data from several MS databases (Access and SQLServer) using Perl. I'm using Win32::ODBC and thought I was following the documentation carefully, but I get useless data using the DataHash method. It looks like this:

6/8('server_name')

Here is the code: 
use Win32::ODBC;

$login = "DSN=ODBCTest";

$sql_text = "SELECT * from tblServer";

$conn = new Win32::ODBC($login) 
  or die "Error Connecting! " . Win32::ODBC::Error();

if (! $conn->Sql($sql_text)) {
  while ($conn->FetchRow()) {
    my $data = $conn->DataHash();
    print "$data('server_name')\n";
  }
}

$conn->Close();

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Supposedly, using DataHash enables you to specify the column name. In this case the column name is 'server_name' but perl treats it like a string with or without quotes. You can use the Data method, but it returns the rows as one big string which is impossible to parse correctly.

Any ideas? Thanks.

In reply to Data returned from Win32::ODBC by rdwaters

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