RE: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

2001-11-09 Thread jcowan
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Re: Newbie Deleting Table Records Problem

2001-07-10 Thread jcowan
Hello, A delete doesn't return any rows with is why your fetchrow isn't able to return any data and you never get inside the while loop. I'm assuming that you want to do the delete and then show the user what it is that they just blew away. If this is the case, ou'd probably be better off ch

Re: ActivePerl PPM Question

2001-07-04 Thread jcowan
Hello Joel, I think that your problem is in the ppd file. If you open it up you will see a bunch of stuff in there among which will be a line that looks like this: http://ppm.ActiveState.com/PPMpackages/5.6plus/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/DBI.tar.gz"; You need to change this to be a relative pa

Re: This guy wants help

2001-07-03 Thread jcowan
Hello This Guy Wants Help, I'm no Perl expert (more of a database guy) but I have used it to play with Sybase. You can use the DBI modules or there is a Sybperl module that is maintained by Michael Peppler. Either one works well and there is a great O'Reilly book on Programming the Perl DBI.

Return values from Module

2001-05-23 Thread jcowan
Hello, I'm having a shot at writing a module for the first. I am experiencing some issues returning an array. The code fragment below is the bit I'm having issues with. I know that everything works as the commented print stmts work. When I try to return the value to the calling script I se

Require

2001-05-22 Thread jcowan
Hello All, I am new to Perl and putting together a script that needs about 20 reasonably complex subroutines. To keep the code as modular and managable as possible I would prefer not to define all the routines in the main script. It seems like using 'require' is the way to go (since I don't h

Re: help me understand $_

2001-04-22 Thread jcowan
Hello Andy, Are there performance implications for using the implicit variable ($_) rather than declaring a specific variable? If so how great ? Also, are there times when one is preferred over another - or is it simply the coder's preference? Thanks very much for your input john