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From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at mbay dot net>
Subject: don't quite understand
Date: Sep 11 1998 2:17PM
pang khong lin writes:
> hi all, newcomer to SybPerl,
>
> $dbh->{"AttributeName'} = value;
>
> don't quite understand the above statement. The attribute name is
> suppose to show the status of the connection, but why it seem as if the
> attribute name is SET to the 'value'? Is the statement suppose to return
> certain value? Let say the :-
>
> if ($dbh->{"ROW_COUNT") = 1) {
> print " add record succeeded";
> ...
> }
>
> is the statement valid? Is this the right way to manipulate the
> connection specific attribute ?
Yes and no.
If you had run perl with the -w flag, you would have gotten a warning
on that statement:
Found = in conditional, should be == at ttt.pl line 3.
In perl a single '=' sign is an assignement. What you wanted to use is
'==' (equality).
You should get a good book on perl to help you understand how it all works.
Michael
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