Hi everyone!

Currently I am learning how to wed MySQL with Perl, and use it for database/internet use. To do this, I of course am using the DBI module. I understand how to search for an id field in Perl by using DBI, but I don't know how I can display a whole table from MySQL in a Perl script. Is there a way to do this?

Currently, my MySQL table has columns:

+----+----------+----------+-------+-----------------+
| id | nickname | password | socks | favorite_number |
+----+----------+----------+-------+-----------------+
|  1 | Cowlick  | salty    |     0 |               4 |
|  2 | andy     | bandy    |     3 |               7 |
+----+----------+----------+-------+-----------------+
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Which is simply an example for a short tutorial site. Also the Perl script I am using is this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use warnings;
use strict;
use DBI;

my $dsn = 'DBI:mysql:test:localhost';
my $db_user_name = '';
my $db_password = '';
my ($id, $password);
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $db_user_name, $db_password);

my $input_nickname = 'Cowlick';
my $input_password = 'salty';

my $sth = $dbh->prepare( qq/select id, password from users
                           where nickname = '$input_nickname'/);
$sth->execute();

($id, $password) = $sth->fetchrow_array();
$sth->finish();
if ($input_password eq $password)
{ 
  print "\nLogin Successful!\n";
  print "Here are the stats:\n";
  print "="x20,"\n";
  print "id = $id, nick=$input_nickname, pass = $password\n";
}

$dbh->disconnect();
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So far this program does what I want it to, but when I try adding the line:

my $sth = $dbh->prepare( qq/select * from users/);
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instead of the line:

my $sth = $dbh->prepare( qq/select id, password from users where nickn
+ame = '$input_nickname'/);
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Basically my question is what the title says: Is there a way I can display all of the contents of that MySQL table in the Perl script? Any help on this subject would be much appreciated. I have found that learning how to use Perl with MySQL is actually fun, and somewhat easy. I just don't know how to this type of thing. Maybe I am not in the right frame of mind ... anyways, any help would be appreciated!

Andy Summers

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