Your response is appreciated.

When I try to place the prepare before the loop, it complains about uninitialized values.
I tried using placeholders, to no avail, so I kept the prepare in the loop. Now I have:

#! C:\perl\bin\perl.exe -w

use DBI;
#use strict;

my $DSN='Database';
my $driver;
my $servlist;
my $field='Server';

#connect to database
my $dbh=DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN", "admin", "") || die;

#Open file for reading
open(INPUT,"file.txt") || die;
while (<INPUT>)
    {
    chomp;
    my ($servlist, $driver)=split(/,/);
    my $sqlstatement=("UPDATE Servers SET nic1_driver_version='$driver
+' WHERE '$field' = '$servlist\n'");
    my $sth=$dbh->prepare($sqlstatement);
    $sth->execute || die;
    }
close (INPUT);
$dbh->disconnect;

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Spits back:
DBD::ODBC::st execute failed: MicrosoftODBC Microsoft Access Driver Too few parameters. Expected 1. (SQL-07002)(DBD: st_execute/SQLExecute err=-1) at C:\Perl\scripts\test\newer.pl line 22, <INPUT> line 1.
Died at C:\Perl\scripts\test\newer.pl line 22, <INPUT> line 1.

I am confused about the parameters error.
Regards,
jw

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Updating Specific Fields in MS Access by p0lp0t
in thread Updating Specific Fields in MS Access by Anonymous Monk

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