I think you have inserted the code I proposed too early. At that place in the script the SQL-statement is not yet written and moreover $guestbookreal just holds the name of the file where the SQL-statement will end up.

So you will have to retrieve the contents of that file (you can do that between the 

close (GUEST);
$dbh->disconnect;

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statements and then plug it into a dbh->prepare statement there. You can then execute the SQL and put the data in your database.

Why Matt goes through so many hoops to do something which is rather easy to do, no-one at Perlmonks has ever been able to understand.

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Modifying Perl script to write to MySQL?? by CountZero
in thread Modifying Perl script to write to MySQL?? by bobafifi

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