> Fr?d?ric Buclin <LpSolit@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Gervase Markham a écrit :
> 
> > "This utility method combines prepare, execute and fetchrow_array into 
> a 
> > single call. If called in a list context it returns the first row of 
> > data from the statement. If called in a scalar context it returns the 
> > first field of the first row."
> 
> Yes, I confirm that, see 
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux/DBI.pm, line 1545:

I'm fairly certain that the DBI behaviour is undefined, mostly for historical reasons. the perl driver has what you quoted, but the XS versions may do other things.

Or maybe I'm getting confused with something else; I'm not easily able to check the docs.

Bradley