The error messages I'm getting from the attempted insert are:

C:\perlp>perl t.pl
DBD::SQLite::db do failed: no such column: cash at t.pl line 17, <DATA
+> line 1.
DBD::SQLite::db do failed: no such column: cash at t.pl line 17, <DATA
+> line 2.
DBD::SQLite::db do failed: no such column: credit at t.pl line 17, <DA
+TA> line 3.
DBD::SQLite::db do failed: no such column: cash at t.pl line 17, <DATA
+> line 4.
DBD::SQLite::db do failed: no such column: credit at t.pl line 17, <DA
+TA> line 5.
DBD::SQLite::db do failed: no such column: credit at t.pl line 17, <DA
+TA> line 6.
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The code and the input data are:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=mydb.txt","","");
die $! unless $dbh;

# customer vendor transType productCode appNumber resultCode
$dbh->do(qq{ CREATE TABLE sales
            (customer int, vendor int, type   char(10),
              product int, app    int, result int)
            });

my $sql_fmt = "INSERT INTO sales VALUES(%d, %d, %s, %d, %d, %d)";
while(<DATA>) {
    my $sql = sprintf $sql_fmt, split;
    $dbh->do($sql);
}

__DATA__
10112    6768    cash    01020    00780    1
10112    6768    cash    01020    00780    0
10112    6768    credit    00040    01010    1
10112    3650    cash    01840    01200    0
14100    2410    credit    02840    00910    0
14100    5220    credit    01020    00780    1
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I don't know why I can't insert for the type field.

Thanks, Chris

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