Re^3: Accessing Access in Perl

I use the following:

$dsn ||= "dbi:ODBC:driver=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb);dbq=$dbfile"
+;
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Note that I have different whitespace. I assume that whitespace is significant.

$dbfile is a filename with backslashes, which should not be significant, but you might want to try both.

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Re^4: Accessing Access in Perl by rpike (Scribe) on Sep 23, 2010 at 14:14 UTC
I must have left something out cause although I thought that is what I had in there it didn't work. I copied your post and it appears to work. Do you have a very simple, generic piece a code that selects everything from the database and prints it to the screen? I'm uncertain of the format and what data is in this database so I need to loop through and print some of the content to screen. One great approach would be to see the structure of the database. I haven't worked on Access/SQL in such a long time so I apologize for some of these noob-like questions. Thanks so much for the help.	[reply]
Re^5: Accessing Access in Perl by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 23, 2010 at 14:18 UTC
Have you tried opening the file in Access? I find Access a much more convenient application. Alternatively see Querylet. Maybe you are looking for a generic SQL statement to list things? `select * from $tablename` [download] will give you the contents of a table.	[reply] [d/l]