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in thread How to display an Access database

I prefer OLE because it's what I know. I don't know anything about DBI (I'm trying to learn it currently).

My question then is will this simply open and display the Access file? What I need is the same thing a system call does. I don't want to open it to send/receive data.
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Re^3: How to display an Access database
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 18, 2007 at 23:37 UTC

    The snippet I gave will open a database handle on the database file. It is almost exactly like using open to open a file handle.

    I'd be inclined to just use system or backticks to run the Access application if that is all you want to achieve.


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      Okay, I'll look into your DBI code. Thanks for your help.