I have written the below Perl script to extract data from a pipe delimited text file to an Access database.

I am currently running this script from a batch file which has a single statement: perl perlscript2.txt where perlscript2.txt is the pipe delimited text file which looks like this:

1009087|10/02/03|abbcdef|1124567|5679.34
1998023|12/06/02|rrrasdd|7468758|300.78

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I keep getting an error message: 'DBD::ODBC::st execute failed: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Syntax error in INSERT INTO statement'


My code looks like this: 

# !/usr/bin/perl -w

use DBI qw(:sql_types);
use DBD::ODBC;


$dsn = "dbi:ODBC:Daily_Rec"; 
$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,' ',' ', 
{RaiseError=>1,PrintError=>1,AutoCommit=>1} );

open(DAT, "c:/Temp/heldreceipts_TempFile.txt") || die "could 
not open Held Receipts file";

while(<DAT>)
{
    chomp;
    @line = split(/\|/, $_);
    $var1=$line[0];
    $var2=$line[1];
    $var3=$line[2];
    $var4=$line[3];
    $var5=$line[4];
    $var6=$line[5];
    $var7=$line[6];
    $var8=$line[7];
    $query=qq{insert into Held_Receipts values (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)};

    
$sth = $dbh->prepare($query) or die "cannot prepare query";
$sth->execute($var1, $var2, $var3, $var4, $var5, $var6, $var7, $var8) 
or $DBI::err and die $DBI::errstr;
    
}
$sth->finish();
$dbh->disconnect();

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when I print out $dbh i get HASH along with numbers in brackets (which means the $dbh part works fine right?).

Any help on resolving this issue will be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks!

update (broquaint): added <code> tags

In reply to Extracting data from a pipe delimited text file into a table in Access by Anonymous Monk

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