finhagen has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I am using Spreadsheet::ParseExcel to read data from an excel spreadsheet. I have encountered a problem ingesting dates. The excel date format is mm/dd/yyyy whereas mysql expects yyyy-mm-dd. I tried reformating the cells in the spreadsheet and I can, in fact, format the presentation of the date to match the yyyy-mm-dd format that mysql expects, but when I select a cell it turns out the cell content is still in the mm/dd/yyyy format. Therefore, when attempt to insert the dates into mysql I only get 0000-00-00.
I am attempting to use the STR_TO_DATE mysql function within my DBI do statement to correct this problem. My code looks like this:
However, this date formatting syntax is failing:$dbh->do("insert into frame (indate,siteid,serial,contract,installdate) values (CURDATE(),\'$frame_siteid\',\'$frame_serial\',\'$frame_contract\',STR +_TO_DATE($frame_installdate,\'%m/%d/Y\')");
I imagine this is a common problem for which there is a common answer, but I am having trouble finding it on the mysql or perl sites/reference material I have searched.DBD::mysql::db do failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check +the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the righ +t syntax to use near '' at line 3 at ./excel.syr.frame.extract.pl lin +e 91.
Hagen Finley
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Re: DBI:mysql date conversion question
by lamp (Chaplain) on Sep 22, 2008 at 01:56 UTC | |
Re: DBI:mysql date conversion question
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 22, 2008 at 01:14 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 22, 2008 at 01:17 UTC | |
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 22, 2008 at 03:16 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 22, 2008 at 07:10 UTC |
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