So, I don't know anything about running Perl in a Windows environment, but I can point out one or two very obvious thing(s) you are doing wrong. First, you want 'use DBI;' rather than 'use DBD::Oracle;' unless there is some weirdness about using SQL::Statement (which I have never used) that I don't know about. Second, you want to retrieve your results into some kind of data structure, not just let them fall to the floor:

  use strict;
  use DBI;
  # make the connection the way you have shown
  my @resultrow = ();
  my $resultref = $dbh->selectrow_arrayref("select ID from study 
    where NAME='$unique_search_string_here'");
  if (ref($resultref) eq 'ARRAY') {
    @resultrow = @{$resultref};
    # do something with $resultrow[0]
  }
  else {
    # check for error in $DBI::errstr, etc.
  }

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This will work only where you have a unique search string that returns only a single row of data ... if you can have multiple rows, use selectall_arrayref, which will give you a reference to an array of array references. Take a few moments and familiarize yourself with DBI.

In reply to Re: Trying to use DBD::Oracle by ptum
in thread Trying to use DBD::Oracle by hj4jc

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