Here is the code:Its working well on the windows.I am trying to run this on linux.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use DBI;

&MakeTable;

&InsertValues;

sub MakeTable()

{

  use DBI;

  #print "enter username\n";
 
  $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:namesdb", 'some' , 'someother',{ Auto
+Commit => 1, RaiseError => 1}) or die "connection error:$DBI::errstr\
+n";
 
 $dbh-> do( "create table if not exists names (

                                #stuff
                   
                                );" 
          );

 $dbh-> disconnect;

          

}#sub ends here;


sub InsertValues()

{

  $tablename="names";

  $infile = '/path/names.dmp'; #

  $field= "\t|\t"; # field ending syntax from file;

  $lines="\t|\n";#lines ending syntax from file;

  $command =  qq ~load data infile '$infile' ignore into table $tablen
+ame FIELDS terminated by '$field' LINES terminated by '$lines';~;  

  $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:namesdb", 'some' , 'someother',{ Auto
+Commit => 1, RaiseError => 1}) or die "connection error:$DBI::errstr\
+n";  

  $dbh->do($command);
  
  $dbh-> disconnect;

 }
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Jun 14, 2008 at 04:22 UTC McDarren Added code tags, removed excessive whitespace