Re: exporting MS ACCESS tables into a CSV file

[dirac]

This is a simple example for a table Clients with fields CompanyName, ClientID, Phone in a file TestAccess.mdb.
See also Text::CSV.

use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects';

# Change these three variables
my $database = "TestAccess.mdb";
my $table    = "Clients";
my $field1   = "CompanyName";
my $field2     = "ClientID";
my $field3   = "Phone";

my $Conn = Win32::OLE->new("ADODB.Connection");
my $RS   = Win32::OLE->new("ADODB.Recordset");

my $DSN = "PROVIDER=MSDASQL;DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};
           DBQ=$database;UID=;PWD=;";
$Conn->Open($DSN);

my $SQL = "SELECT $field1, $field2, $field3 FROM $table";

$RS->Open($SQL, $Conn, 1, 1);

until ($RS->EOF) {
    
    my $value1 = $RS->Fields($field1)->value;
    my $value2 = $RS->Fields($field2)->value;
    my $value3 = $RS->Fields($field3)->value;
    
    print $value1,"\t",$value2,"\t",$value3,"\n";
    
   $RS->MoveNext;
}

$RS->Close;
$Conn->Close;

[chicago928]

what if i don't know the table names or the fields in each table in advance? I will however easily know the filenames.

[Anonymous Monk]

Hi All, I have tries the above code but when i'm trying to access the tables and columns which contains white spaces it's giving the following error: (Can't call method "value" on an undefined value) Please help