Good points everyone! And while this IS more of a beginners-cgi question,
here's my two cents anyway...
Lately, I have myself have been re-evaluating my use of perl in a CGI
context since, PHP is so ideally suited towards perl-like tasks and already
has a vast library of prebuilt functions for e
I've never played with it, but I think what you need is the perl win32 OLE
libaray...basically, it gives you VBScript-like access to win32 objects and
applications via perl!
check it out:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Perl/Products/ActivePerl/site/lib/Win32/OLE
..html
I'm not sure what you're
I often use the quick and dirty approach of just using back-tics to make a
system call to my other perl script (or program) and grab its output for my
own program
like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#my first script
#initialize a variable to pass
$x="foo";
#call 'secondScript.pl' with "foo" as an arg
I haven't used much DBI but I suspect that your $rv2 is just a reference to
an array of rows so you might try doing something like "$rv2 =
scalar($sth2->rows)" to put the number of items in that array into $rv2...
BTW, why such cryptic variable names? ;-)
Of course, I may be completely off so hope
