Yes, definitely use DBI.

Here's a few lines from one of my old scripts that read from a sybase. The environment stuff is important. IIRC, it will be the same even if you're using the freetds libs. 

use DBI;
BEGIN {
    # path to sybase or freetds libs
    $ENV{'SYBASE'}    = "/opt/sybase";
    # Sybase server as listed in your 'interfaces' file
    $ENV{'DSQUERY'}   = "server.host.name"; 
}
my (@available_drivers, $dbh, $sql_statement, $sth, @array) = ();
my $username = "dbusername";
my $password = "dbpassword";
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Sybase:', $username, $password);

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After that, you're good to go with normal DBI methods straight from the docs.

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naChoZ

In reply to Re: how to parse output from isql utility by naChoZ
in thread how to parse output from isql utility by reuben12

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