perlquestion Anonymous Monk Hi Monks, I want to find the quickest possible way to count the number of rows in a mysql db. Heres part of my code that returns this "ARRAY(0x1ae8674)" <code> my $sqlc = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM company_info"; my $crows= $dbh->selectrow_arrayref($sqlc); print $crows; #I did not use prepare or execute since I heard selectrow_arrayref wraps it around </code> I also tried using print $crows[0], but then it says it requires global symbol @crows. What am I doing wrong? Since this code and sql statement will only generate 1 row returned with 1 column--would selectcol_arrayref be better then selectrow_arrayref ? Thanks 12