RE: programmatically getting field list from a table

2001-08-10 Thread Don Read
On 10-Aug-2001 Bennett Haselton wrote: > Is there any way -- using either MySQL directly, or (ideally) using the DBI > perl module -- to get a list of fields from a (possibly empty) table? (If > the table is nonempty, you can just use a perl function to get the first > record, and then apply

RE: programmatically getting field list from a table

2001-08-09 Thread Chris Bolt
> Is there any way -- using either MySQL directly, or (ideally) > using the DBI perl module -- to get a list of fields from a > (possibly empty) table? (If the table is nonempty, you can > just use a perl function to get the first record, and then > apply keys() to the returned reference to get

programmatically getting field list from a table

2001-08-09 Thread Bennett Haselton
Is there any way -- using either MySQL directly, or (ideally) using the DBI perl module -- to get a list of fields from a (possibly empty) table? (If the table is nonempty, you can just use a perl function to get the first record, and then apply keys() to the returned reference to get the fiel