Hi Again,

I am using SQLites (Thanks to perrin's advice in this node.) And I want to be able suppress error messages generated by execute() failure in certain cases. Below is a script and its output that I hope demonstrates what I am talking about. 
bash-2.03$ cat execMonks.pl 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;
 
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=request_db","","");
 
my $createTableSQL = <<SQL;
CREATE TABLE REQUEST (
        REQ             NUMBER,
        STATUS          NUMBER
)
SQL
 
my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $createTableSQL ) or die $dbh->errstr . "\n";
$sth->execute() or warn $dbh->errstr . "\n";
$sth->finish;
 
bash-2.03$ ./execMonks.pl 
 
bash-2.03$ ./execMonks.pl 
DBD::SQLite::st execute failed: table REQUEST already exists at ./exec
+Monks.pl line 15.
table REQUEST already exists

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When I execute execMonks.pl the second time I want to suppress the error message if the table REQUEST already exist. I don't want to supress failures for other types of errors. Any help would be appreciated :)

Thanks

Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas.

In reply to How should I handle $sth->execute() errors? by Plankton

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