sybperl-l Archive

From: David Owen <dowen at midsomer dot org>
Subject: Re: ct_close?
Date: Apr 4 2002 2:48AM

>>>>> "Alex" == Vickers, Alex  writes:

  Alex> Hello, Unless I'm mistaken there doesn't appear to be support in
  Alex> the sybperl CTlib for ct_close(). I notice there is a ct_close in
  Alex> the Open Client Client Library C/Reference Manual
  Alex> (http://manuals.sybase.com:80/onlinebooks/group-cn/cng1000e/ref/@Generic__Bo
  Alex> okTextView/28931;pt=24598/*#X). For most purposes we can just let
  Alex> the connection close when it goes out of scope (e.g. when the perl
  Alex> script exits) but for more complicated scripts it could be useful.

  Alex> Is there going to be a ct_close() to match the dbclose() of DBlib?
  Alex> If not, how can I explicitly close CT connections nicely?

When you destroy the file handle, the connection is closed.  So, undef'ing
$dbh, if $dbh contained the original file handle, does the trick.

dowen
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