I agree, REPLACE would be better.

If you want to use the fact the execute command failed to detect duplicate entries, you should capture the actual error code, rather than blindly trying an update on any error.

if ($DBI::err) {
  if ($DBI::err eq '1062') { # taken from mysqld_error.h
    # duplicate.. try an update
    unless ($update->execute( $gamedesc, $gamename )) {
      die sprintf('UPDATE failed: %s %s', $gamename, $DBI::errstr);
    }
  } 
  else {
    die sprintf('INSERT failed: %s %s', $gamename, $DBI::errstr);
  }
}

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In reply to Re^2: Updating or Inserting a database from a txt file by cowboy
in thread Updating or Inserting a database from a txt file by Nik

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