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Thanks for the quick reply Corion! I went through those functions and if I understood correctly, they would return the datatype as a number representing their ISO counerpart. Is it possible to see the actual Sybase datatype (instead of number)?
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Re^3: Datatype of fetch'ed columns using Perl-Sybase
by ww (Archbishop) on Jul 03, 2012 at 16:07 UTC

    You could certainly translate them yourself:

    First, create your translation table (ficticious data, of course):

    my %translation_table = (
        1=>"bool",
        27=>"char",
        13=>"dec",
        34=>"nul",
        55=>"etc...",
    );

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    Then, using the value from catalog functions, select and then print (or say) the appropriate data-type-word to your output.

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