Hi! I am trying to connect to an OppenOffice database using Perl. I suspect I could do this through ODBC, but I don't know which driver to use.

I'm using Active Perl 5.10.x installed in a Windows XP machine, but I'll have to implement this code in a machine running Mac OS X, hence the need to migrate to OpenOffice.

I have the code working for an Access database. One of the operations is simply to store the database information in a hash (see example below, targeting the Access database.)
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best wishes.
sub dbQuery {

    my ($queryStr) = @_;
    
    my $dbObject = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:driver=Microsoft Access Driv
+er (*.mdb, *.accdb); dbq=$logHsh{dbPath}",
    {RaiseError => 1}) || errMsg("Cannot connect to database.\n$DBI::e
+rrstr");
    
    my $dbQuery = $dbObject->prepare($queryStr, {RaiseError => 1}) || 
+errMsg("Couldn't prepare querying statement.\n$DBI::errstr");
    $dbQuery->execute || errMsg("Error fetching data.\n$DBI::errstr");
    
    my %dbHsh;
    while (my ($hshKey, $hshRec) = $dbQuery->fetchrow_array) {
        $dbHsh{$hshKey} = $hshRec;
    }
    $dbObject->disconnect;    
    return %dbHsh;
}

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