Um... What's this?

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:XBase: m:\\") ...

Could it be that you're using the delimiter for the connect string within your directory specification? That's a small hazardous guess, since I haven't used DBD::XBase, but since ':' is the standard delimiter, you may have to find a different manner of specfifying directory.

Also, after using DBI with Oracle and MS SQL Server, and just recently MySQL, I have to say that DBD:XBase has one of the strangest connect strings I've seen. Try this to get a better understanding of what the connect string is seeing: 

DBI->trace(3);
$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:XBase:m:\\");

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UPDATE: Is it safe to presume that you don't need a user and password for your dbf file? Looking at the trace output immediately below this post, it appears that you get a database handle, but the statement handle is what's creating the error. That's as far down the road as I can take you, young monk, but it may be enough to put it all together.

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Seemingly Internal DBD-XBase Error by PsychoSpunk
in thread Seemingly Internal DBD-XBase Error by mvaline

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