Hello, I am currently migrating from PHP to Perl/CGI.
In PHP there is a nice little fuction called mysql_num_rows() that returns the number of rows from a SELECT query.

Using DBI however, I can't see a way to get my total returned rows count without doing a seperate COUNT(*) query beforehand and then repeating the same query in a non-grouping fashion. For instance... a chunk of code from a script I'm working on: 

## chunk 'O' code
$sql  = "SELECT COUNT(*) ";
$sql .= "FROM sc_products ";
$sql .= "WHERE name LIKE '%$search_name%' ";
$sql .= "AND keywords LIKE '%Color%'";

$sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute || $error->LogError("Error opening database connection f
+or product count in search.cgi".$dbh->errstr, 0);
# get my count
my $count = $sth->fetchrow_array;
$sth->finish;

$sql  = "SELECT name, image2 ";
$sql .= "FROM sc_products ";
$sql .= "WHERE name LIKE '%$search_name%' ";
$sql .= "AND keywords LIKE '%Color%'";

$sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute || $error->LogError("Error opening database connection f
+or product count in search.cgi".$dbh->errstr, 0);

while(my @results = $sth->fetchrow_array)
{
## Use my count in here for some cool table formatting...    
print "<tr><td class=\"imgs\">...
}

$sth->finish;
$dbh->disconnect();

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I look forward to your input.
Thank you very much,
dstefani

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