[ic] How do I pull out the field-names from a query?

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Mike Heins (mike@valuemedia.com):
> Quoting Rene Hertell (interchange@hertell.com):
> > > Examine the calling documentation better.
> > > 
> > > 	($ary, $field_hash, $name_array) = $db->query($sql);
> > 
> > Hi Mike,
> > 
> > I'm sorry, but I can't find that part of the documentation.. :(
> > 
> > Could you please guide me in the right direction..
> > 
> 
> The right direction is to give me a swat upside the head. Or the person
> who mangled my embedded Perl documentation, anyway. 8-)
> 
> Which could have been me, I suppose. I am sure I had it in there, but it
> got lost as so many things did during the docs changeover. 8-\
> 
> There is a missing call in ictemplates.sdf:
> 
> 	## $ary is result array of arrays/hashes
> 	## $field_hash gives pointers to field indicies in the $ary
> 	## $name_array is field names for query
>  	($ary, $field_hash, $name_array) = $db->query($sql);
> 
> So if you make this call:
> 
> 	my $sql = 'select sku,price,description from products';
>  	my ($ary, $fh, $na) = $db->query($sql);
> 
> $na will be [ 'sku, price, description' ].

Correction:

$na will be [ 'sku', 'price', 'description' ].

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