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in reply to Re: Why was it neccessary to pass a DBI handler by reference?
in thread Why was it neccessary to pass a DBI handler by reference?

I made the following changes:
That's it. I didn't expect it to work, and only tried it because the symptom seemed to be that of a variable passed by value, not by reference. The fact that it did work has left me bewildered, and is the reason I started this thread.