Dear Monks,

I continue to receive the following error when trying to execute the code below. The procedure is to convert a date using the SQL to_date function, return it to Perl for processing, and then feed the date into a stored SQL procedure. I've tried passing the date multiple ways but continue to get the same error. Please note that I receive the error with or without the exception handling (not too sure that exception part will work either).

Any insight you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Error Received:
Placeholder :0 invalid, placeholders must be >= 1 at C:/Perl64/lib/DBD/Oracle.pm line 321.

Code Used:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use DBI;
use strict;

my $tdate = $ARGV[0];

my $dbh=DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:dbname",username,password,{RaiseError
+ => 1 , PrintError => 0});

my $x;
open ($x, '>P_RUN_TIME_LOG.txt');


my $sqlstmt = "select to_date('$tdate','mm/dd/yyyy') from dual";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sqlstmt);
$sth->execute() or die $dbh->errstr;
my $tmp;
$sth->bind_columns(undef, \$tmp);
while($sth->fetch()) {$tdate = $tmp;}        # LOOP THROUGH RESULTS
$t = localtime();
print $x "DATE formatted at $t. Formatted DATE is $tdate.\n\n";



$t = localtime();
print $x "Executing FT_PROC at $t.\n\n";
$sqlstmt = "BEGIN FT_PROC($tdate); 
            EXCEPTION
                WHEN others THEN
                sql_stmt := 'INSERT INTO P_LOG (PRCDR, FT_DATE, RUN_ST
+ATUS) VALUES ('FT_PROC', $tdate, 1)';
                execute immediate sql_stmt;
            END;";
$sth = $dbh->do($sqlstmt) or die $dbh->errstr;

$dbh -> disconnect;

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In reply to Placeholder Error (Placeholder :0 invalid, placeholders must be >= 1) by alex.TT2

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