Hi PerlMonks,

A quick question for those of you familiar with Perl DBI module. The basics of the code is pulling a table out of an obsolete database and putting it into a new mySQL database.

I'm approaching this using a set of arrays -- basically, pulling one row at a time from the old table and putting it into the new & linking it with the column names.

when I check the lenght of the arrays of both @col and @values in perl -- the result is the same: the number of columns is 10; the number of values is 10,

however when I join the columns and values into strings "," deliminated, and try to INSERT the row into the database, I get a error: DBD::mysql::db do failed: Column count doesn't match value count

here's the code snippet: 

while (@tmp = $hi->fetchrow_array()) {
        push(@col, $tmp[0]);
    }

while (@org = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
        my $i;
        for ($i = 0; $i <= 9 ; $i++) {
            push(@values, $org[$i]);
        }
    }
    my $cc = join(", ", @col);
    my $vv = join(", ", @values);
    print "\n\n $vv \n $cc";
    my $sql_2 = qq{INSERT INTO mfa.genome ($cc) VALUES ("$vv")};

    my $now = $DBHandle->prepare( $sql_2 );
    $DBHandle->do($sql_2);

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There is some strange syntax in the old table to begin with, a column including both ";" and "." could this choking the mySQL?

many thanks,
jperlq

In reply to Perl DBI and mySQL by jperlq

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