I have changed my code as below: 
 my $sth = $dbh->prepare("exec sp_helptext ?");
        $sth->execute($_[0]) || die ("cannot run sp");
        while(my @data = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
           print join(q{,}, @data) . "\n".$data[1];
        }
        $sth->finish;
        $sth=undef;

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when I print @data it seems to be giving me the number of lines in the SQL text. instead of the text itself. Please advise

In reply to Re^2: Perl db programming by rmatil
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