The DBI module converts SQL's NULL value into Perl's undef, and vice versa. You're getting a warning because one of the rows you're fetching has a column with a NULL value, which gives undef for one of the elements in @data. (For example, @data might be (7, 'Bob', undef, 'bob@example.com'). You could simply turn off warnings local to the block, since the warning isn't pointing out an actual problem.

This conversion between NULL and undef can also be seen with $dbh->quote(undef), which returns the string 'NULL'. undef can also be used with placeholders to get a NULL value in SQL.

In reply to Re: Scope is just not for Fresh Breath by chipmunk
in thread Scope is just not for Fresh Breath by notsoevil

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