I'm primarily a scientist and don't know much at all about the DBI/Database side of things so this could well explain the absence of placeholders!
Here's the main sub from the script. The longstring variable is $RawData here.
An example input file consists of thousands of entries of 3 colums each. e.g.
idnumber56373<tab>69.3<tab>P<newline> 
# .chp file parsing/db updating subroutine
sub dataparse {

    # Extract arguments passed to sub and define input file and bg var
+iables
    my $input = shift @_;
    my $background = shift @_;
    my $pcall=0;
    my $acall=0;
    my $mcall=0;
    my $pandabovecall=0;
    my $mandabovecall=0;
    my $rawdatastring="";
    # Open input file or die
    open (INPUT, $input) or die "Cannot open infile!$!";
    # Enter while loop for file parse
    while (<INPUT>) {

      # Skip header and Affray control lines
      next if (/^\s*$/) || (/^Gene/) || (/^AFFX/) || (/^2000/);

      # Split line on tabs, assign to array and chomp
      chomp (my @linearray = split "\t", $_);

      # Extract 3 required values
      my $name = shift @linearray;
      my $signal = shift @linearray;
      my $affraycall = shift @linearray;
      $rawdatastring .="$name:$signal:$affraycall:";

      # Increment Present count fot sequence if above bg and present e
+lse increment absent count

        if ($affraycall eq "P") {
                $pcall++;
                if ($signal > $background) {$pandabovecall++;}
        }
        elsif ($affraycall eq "M") {
                $mcall++;
                if ($signal > $background) {$mandabovecall++;}
        }
        elsif ($affraycall eq "A") {$acall ++;}
     }
    close INPUT;
    my $pmandaboves = $pandabovecall+$mandabovecall;


my $inserthandle = $dbh->prepare ("INSERT INTO CHIPDATA (RawData) VALU
+ES ('$rawdatastring')");

$inserthandle->execute;

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In reply to Re^4: perl DBI String length problem by travisbickle34
in thread perl DBI String length problem by travisbickle34

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