Re: &main::execute undefined?

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:46:09AM -0800, Andrew Magnus wrote:
> Thanks, but it still doesn't work. :-(
>
> For everyone else, the error I'm getting is:
>
> Undefined subroutine &main::execute called at ./test.pl line 10.
>
> where line 10 is:
>
> $statementH = execute() || warn $statementH->errstr ;

You need to read the documentation for DBI. What Oliver's terse example
was saying is that you are using the wrong syntax. execute() is a
statement handle method, not a method for creating a statement handle.

Read the docs - perldoc DBI

mike

> Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
> $statementH->execute() || warn $statementH->errstr ;
> $relname = $statementH->fetchrow_array();
> $statementH->finish();