Greetings Thargor,
I am also a newbie, and have needed to to do something very similar many times. Here is the format I usually use.
############################################################
sub getInfo
############################################################
{
my ($dbh, $sth, %data);
$dbh=DBI->connect('DBI:ODBC:my_table', { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit =
+> 0 });
$sth = $dbh->prepare( "Select * FROM my_table" );
$sth->execute;
$sth->bind_columns( \( @data{ @{$sth->{NAME_lc} } } )); #----Saves sp
+eed by binding columns to their values.
$sth->{'ChopBlanks'} =1; #----Removes extra spaces from fixed char
+fields.
$data{$_} = (defined $data{$_}) ? $data{$_} : '' for keys %data; #---
+-Changes null values to "" as per jZed to avoid warnings
while ($sth->fetch) {
print qq(<TR>\n);
print qq(<TH>$data{col1name}</TH>\n); #use real column names
print qq(<TH>$data{col2name}</TH>\n);
print qq(<TH>$data{col3name}</TH>\n);
print qq(<TH>$data{col4name}</TH>\n);
print qq(</TR>\n);
}
$sth->finish();
$dbh->disconnect(); ----Needed to free up system resources.
}
Hope this also helps.
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