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Thanks for the response Paul. I'm aware that the ? after the RETURNING is the eighth variable; I'm just not sure how to pass it. I was under the assumption that the $sth->bind_param_inout statement would bind it before the execute statement, and thus the DB would recognize that the eighth...

Hi. I'm attempting to assign a variable via a field that is using an autoincrement sequence. I'm trying to use the Oracle bind_param_inout() procedure to pass the value by reference. The code goes a bit like this: ************* my $sql=q(INSERT INTO MESSAGES (message_id, message_text...

Thanks for the fix Brigmar. A combination of chomp/chop did the trick. Very much apprectiated.

Kevin ADC, The print statement does indeed print the expected output...the old file and the new appended file. Brigmar, I toyed with the chomp statement briefly thinking along the same lines, but abandoned it fairly quickly. I'll go back to it and see what happens. Thanks for the input guys.

Greetings. I'm new to perl, and this should be a simple task, but I am dropping the ball somewhere. I'm working on a script to automate the archiving of some .pdf files nightly. It will be necessary for perl to rename the files that have been copied over; that is where I have hit the wall. My...