LPM: DBI woes

[Joe Hourcle]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Rich Bowen wrote:

> Well, one or more. ->fetch is an alias to ->fetchrow_arrayref, and so
> returns an array reference, which is not really what I want.
> fetchrow_array returns one row of the select as an array. If you only
> selected one field, it returns that one field in an array, which is what
> I want. I use the technique all the time.

> >         So in a nutshell, I would try changing that one line to:
> >         $day = $sth->fetch;
> 
> I'm confused on this one. Now $day is an array reference, right? Do you
> use this in actual code? That is, is $day actually a field from the
> database. Does the method do some sort of wantarray in there, and intuit
> what you want?

If it's returning an array ref, can't you just do:

	($day) = $sth->fetch;

(I'd look up how I normally do things, but I don't have my normal access
right now)

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Joe Hourcle