You're kinda right when you say the loop will not keep the contents of the file, except it won't even contain the contents of the last line of the file, because $record will be undef after the entire file is read, and the loop is left.

And the title of this question is misleading, he doesn't want Oracle to use the file name; instead he wants and needs to send the contents of the file.

I'm not sure what happens if you ask Oracle to execute the contents of an entire file in one go. You'll like have to split into single statements, and it's not clear how you send the source code for a package or package body. The invocation command "/" which is put after the end of a package or package body actually means "repeat the last command". How do you do the same through DBI? I have no idea.

In reply to Re^2: Passing a file into DBD-Oracle by bart
in thread Passing a file into DBD-Oracle by TJRandall

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