Hi, I have the following Perl script which basically should take a string, run a plsql function using that string and return an ID number. I would like to pass the string as a bind variable into the plsql and retrieve the ID number as another out bind variable. 
use DBI;
my $dbh;
my $sth;
my $plsql;
my $id=0;
my $l_chime = qw(HZgrDAwAPB5QvcatrY);

connect_db();


eval{
$plsql = $dbh->prepare(q{
            BEGIN 
                :id := Pkg.search_string(:l_chime); 
            END;
            }); 


$plsql->bind_param_inout(":id",\$id,16);
$plsql->bind_param_inout(":l_chime",\$l_chime,4000);
$plsql->execute;
$plsql->finish;
};
print "returned: id: $id \n";

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$id always returns null and i get a 'use of unitialised variable in string or concatenation (.)' error. I followed the steps in this perlmonks post, but still no luck.

You will see above that i have used bind_param_inout for id but i have tried bind_param, and it does the same thing.

Any ideas would be appeciated.

Thanks.

Joe.

In reply to DBI Out parameters by Anonymous Monk

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