Hello all, Well, I have a perl script I am writng which is supposed to run like this:

status 7005

Which should return something like this: 

st8a: 22
st8b: 2

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And I have this code thusfar: 

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use DBI;

die "Usage: status <id> [<id> ...]\n" unless $#ARGV >= 0;

my $id = @ARGV[0];

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=eppie;host=localhost;port=5432")
  || die "Error connecting to database: $DBI::errstr\n";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare(qq{
                SELECT st8a, st8b FROM sample WHERE id=$id});

$sth->execute()
  || die "Error executing query: " . $dbh->errstr . "\n";

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

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My question now is, and this is embarassing -- how do I, you know, get that data that the SQL command is bringin up and put it into variables that I can use? Am I even doing all of this properly? Thanks, you guys are the best.

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