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lwicks has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello all,
I am carrying on with my exploration of DBI and specifically DBD::Anydata and have a working script, but one of the sub routines comes up with the following error:

START of get_user_data<P> SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ? [z] Use of uninitialized value at (ev +al 8) line 16. Use of uninitialized value at (eval 8) line 16. Use of + uninitialized value at (eval 8) line 16. Use of uninitialized value +at (eval 8) line 16. Use of uninitialized value at (eval 8) line 16. +Use of uninitialized value at (eval 8) line 16. Use of uninitialized +value at (eval 8) line 16. <P> result = z b b b b z NO Mon Jan 5 20:45:40 2004 Mon Jan 5 20:45:40 200 +4 0 50 1 0 0 0 Novice<P> User Data = z b b b b z NO Mon Jan 5 20:45:40 2004 Mon Jan 5 20:45:40 +2004 0 50 1 0 0 0 Novice<P> Judoka Limit = 1

The subroutine and script works fine (so far), but the error keeps showing up, which A) worries me and B) looks terrible on a user interface.

Any help would be appreciated. The sub routine is listed below

Cheers,
LANCE


sub get_user_data { # This subroutine collects the users data from t +he user database print p("START of get_user_data") if $DEBUG; my @internal_user_data = @_; # This line takes t +he user_data passed to us from the previous routine (@_) and allocate +s it to our internal user data array my $entered_id = $internal_user_data[0]; # just + so that it is clearer later we create a variable from the passed dat +a # Use DBI to connect to the users.csv datafile #---------------------------------------------- +- my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:AnyData(RaiseError= +>1):'); # tell DBI we want to use the Anydata module in ./MyLibs $dbh->func( 'users', 'CSV', 'data/users.csv', ' +ad_catalog'); # Connect to the users.csv data file # select from the datafile the id for the user +ID from the array paased from the previous sub routine my @params = ($entered_id); + # Theese are the parameteres we will use in the SQL command abo +ve my $sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?"; + # this is the SQL command we want to execute print "$sql\n[@params]\n" if $DEBUG; + # if we are in debug mode print the SQL statement my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $sql ); + # prepare the SQL command $sth->execute( @params ); + # excecute the SQL using our parameters my @result = $sth->fetchrow_array; # this line +takes the results of the select and puts it in the array called RESUL +TS $dbh->disconnect(); # we are done with the datb +ase for now, so disconnect from it (MAY NOT BE NECESSARY) print p("result = @result")if $DEBUG; + # Prints the result of our SQL command if we are in debug mode. return (@result); print p("END of get_user_data") if $DEBUG; }

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