There in fact are method(s) that limit the number of results you get. They're called fetchrow_*(). They limit the number of results to one row so you can control however many you actually obtain. Straight out of the DBI documentation:
$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT foo, bar FROM table WHERE baz=?");
$sth->execute( $baz );
while ( @row = $sth->fetchrow_array ) {
print "@row\n";
}
Now you can transform this a little to suit your needs like merlyn was talking about:
my $LIMIT = 30;
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT foo, bar FROM table WHERE baz=?");
$sth->execute( $baz );
my ( @rows, @row );
for ( 1 .. $LIMIT ) {
last unless ( @row = $sth->fetchrow_array );
push @rows, [ @row ];
}
#do stuff with @rows
This code is untested but you get the general idea. There are other types of fetchrow_*() methods that you can take a look at. Read the DBI documentation.
Update: You can also take a look at the fetchall_arrayref() method which appears to take a $max_rows parameter.
Zenon Zabinski | zdog | zdog@perlmonk.org
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