Are you looking for a way to shorten the method to get your result out of the query? Like a way to replace execute, prepare, fetch?
If so, check out CPAN on DBI:
http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.615/DBI.pm

Here are some my favorites... For one row of results I usually like to use:

my ($col1, $col2, $col3) = $dbh->selectrow_array($query);

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For multiple rows I like the array ref methods. Here is one right from CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.615/DBI.pm#selectall_arrayref)

  my $emps = $dbh->selectall_arrayref(
      "SELECT ename FROM emp ORDER BY ename",
      { Slice => {} }
  );

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To then access your result you can use this loop

  foreach my $emp ( @$emps ) {
      print "Employee: $emp->{ename}\n";
  }

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There is a lot of information on DBI in CPAN.

Dawn

In reply to Re^3: basic dbi question by wallisds
in thread basic dbi question by Anonymous Monk

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