Re: [mv] Accessing Database values from [perl]

[Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.net>]

Handytman@aol.com writes:

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> I am attempting to use [perl] to check my shopping cart for items that are 
> out of stock (checking the cart against the Inventory database.) The 
> $Safe{items} is well explained. What I cannot find is how to chack an 
> arbitrary database, key, field combination from Perl. I found, in the mailing 
> list, something called database_field($database, $key, $field), but I cannot 
> get this to work, and it isn't in the docs. Is it for real? Or is there 
> another way?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Rob Maurer

You may try the function safe_tag. Somelike that may work:

$number = safe_tag ('data inventory count [item-code]');

Bye
        Racke

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