I need to query a table ,retrieve two columns of info in multiple rows. I need to parse through each row after finding out how many rows are there and extract the column data and store it in a vcariable. For example , if there are 5 rows of information

For i=0 to 5

do

Get row of ouput from isql

$lname$i=<extract first column>

$fname$i=<extract second column>

Go to next row of output from isql

done

These variables i use to query database in later part of the script.

Is it possible? I have done it in ksh but am very new to perl.

I know how to open a file,write query to it and execute using isql through perl. I just dont know how to implement the above pseudo code.

Can somebody please help??

Thanks..

I'm afraid i have no idea what DBI is but i guess its sort of extension to perl that i need to install. I cant be sure that i can get it installed in customer place. But normal isql seems to solve my problem.

After getting these data i need to create a view on sybase server and then bcp out the data. I have written the perl script for it and it is working fine but for a fixed number of inputs.

The fname,lname form part of the WHERE clause of the query. How can i write SQL statement to create view with variable number of conditions in WHERE clause

CREATE VIEW cust_view AS select * from customer where fname='AAAA' AND fname='BBBB' AND ...

How do i handle this assuming i have all the 'fnames' in an array and so know the count of array elements.??

In reply to how to parse output from isql utility by reuben12

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