Hello Perl gurus I have a pipe delimited flat file with about 85 fields and and four hundred rows. After writing a small script using DBD:AnyData I noticed that the result data set returned from a simple query returned some colums as NULL values when there was actuall data in the column. The problem is not consistant either becuase if the query is modified by either adding or deleteing column names then the colum that showed NULL will show the data value. I was wonder if anyone else has had a similiar problem with DBD:AnyData or know of a workaround to this problem? Code snipped below. 

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:AnyData(RaiseError=>1):');   
$dbh->func( 'DBTable', 'Pipe', "db.txt", $col_nm, 'ad_catalog' ) ;
my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $sql ) ;  
$sth->execute() ;

where $sql = 
          select col1
               , col2
               , col3
               , ...
               , colN
            from Depcorr 
           where col1 = '12345'

and $col_nm { col_names => 'col1,col2,col3,...colN' } ;

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Unfortunately I am unable to display the columns name I actually used because of security reasons. TIA

In reply to dbd anydata does not return the correct result set by sajohn52

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