Yes, it's a normal array. We create it as a "placeholder" to build the longer string. The array ref contains array refs of strings from a database column, that look like this:

12345678-abcd-4321-wxyz-wufht83nwi03

They're all unique. We need to fetch all the strings, then quote them and string them together. That resulting long string is passed to a subsequent SQL query as an IN ('...') conditional.

Here's what I'm doing, in more detail:

my ($aref, $acount, @temparray, $tcount);

$aref = GetArrayRef($dbh,$sqlquery);

$acount = @$aref; # results in n

foreach (@$aref) { push(@temparray,qq('$_[0]') ); }

$tcount = @temparray; # should also equal n, and does.

After we create @temparray, we join all the elements to a string. We have to quote the strings or else Oracle will not parse the query correctly.

The problem is that when we return $tcount to the caller, it hangs. $acount passes fine.

I've double checked everything, including any called modules, and everything seems fine.

Odd.

In reply to Re^2: Return variable hangs script by joedoc
in thread Return variable hangs script by joedoc

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