Hi all-
I am hoping someone out there has encountered this issue, and may be able to pose a possible solution. I am currently writing a cgi perl script to access a sybase table and print the results in HTML. Everything is working fine, minus a small truncation issue.
In the script, I am reading a database column that is of type varchar(1000). I perform the following perl commands:


$statement = 'SELECT Location, Usage, FROM DevelopmentTool';
$sth = $dbh->prepare($statement);
$sth->execute;


I then loop the results, and print the results into an HTML table. The location result though I am noticing truncates the output at 255 characters all of the time. I did a select directly from the database, and the entire result resides in the database, but for some reason, when selecting via the perl module and printing the results, the result always truncates.

Is there something that I am possibly missing in my query, which may prevent this truncation issue?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Chris.

In reply to Perl Database Select Results Being Truncated by cpatrick

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