Haven't gone through your code but here are a few tips

  1. Use DBI error messages to understand the problems, e.g. $sth = $dbh->prepare($query) || die $DBI::errstr or $sth->execute() or die $DBI::errstr
  2. Use debugger "perl -d"
  3. If you are not comfortable with debugger sometimes you can even use print statements to check the progress. Error in "prepare" will result in undefined statement handle
  4. And finally after you have done all above, if you are still not able to understand the problem try to put only part of the code where you actually see the problem

I hope the very first option will solve your problems

In reply to Re: Mysql update table problem by samarzone
in thread Mysql update table problem by jb22

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