Hi, I am new to perl and am writing a program to connect to sybase using perl DBI.

I need to get the SQL text for a give db object . for. eg. sp_helptext spName which would give the underlying SQL text for the Stored proc. I have pasted the code that am using: 

$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Sybase:host=<host>:port=<port>",user,pwd)
my $rv; #holds the return value from sybase stored procedure
eval {
    my $func = $dbh->prepare(q{
        BEGIN
            :rv := jwb_function(
                parameter1_in => :parameter1
            );
        END;
    });

    $func->bind_param(":parameter1", "spname");
    $func->bind_param_inout(":rv", \$rv, 1000);
    $func->execute;
        print $rv;

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I have the folowing doubts:
1. I am not getting any result in $rv
2. can i substitute jwb_function with my stored proc name?

Your help is greatly appreciated

In reply to Perl db programming by rmatil

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