I humbly submit the following conundrum for your consideration:

I am selecting several fields from a vanilla mysql database, however one row's result is being truncated. In particular, the 'torun' column contains <\ - this and anything following is truncated. For example, a database entry for torun contains: 

touch /var/opt/OV/dbspi/defaults; /var/opt/OV/bin/instrumentation/dbsp
+icfg -i </var/opt/OV/bin/instrumentation/disney-dbtab; /var/opt/OV/bi
+n/instrumentation/dbspi_mw_int;

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but the perl select: 
$lookup = $dbh->prepare_cached("select file,whereto,filename,torun fro
+m esm.ConfigMgr_FileRef");
$lookup->execute();
while ( ($Tfile,$Twhereto,$Tfilename,$Ttorun) = $lookup->fetchrow_arra
+y)
   {
   print "$Twhereto\n";
   print "$Tfilename\n";
   print "$Ttorun\n";
   }

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returns only  touch /var/opt/OV/dbspi/defaults; /var/opt/OV/bin/instrumentation/dbspicfg -i

I validated that removing the < character allows the remaining text to be selected properly, but this is an important part of the data, which is used later in the program.

Despite searching perlmonks, nutshell books, and hitting my head against the keyboard, I have been unable to determine a fix. If any monk sees fit to share their knowledge, I would be eternally grateful.

In reply to DBI mysql select truncating on special character by bwern

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