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MySQL in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Use this method to execute multiple statements given as the argument of the method, as a sub method. You may give a reference to a subroutine that returns an array of arrays of data. Or you may give the array of arrays as shown in the following example. Tuple status may be given as an array reference for the second argument:

...
my @engl = ('one','two','three');
my @ital = ('uno','due','tre');
my @germ = ('eins','zwei','drei');

my @count_values =(\@engl, \@ital, \@germ);

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO count_three 
                         (col1, col2, col3) 
                         VALUES (?,?,?)");
my ($rc) = $sth->execute_for_fetch( sub { shift @count_values }, undef);

The value of $rc is 3. Since the tuple’s status is undefined in this example, there is none. However, if you were to give one with the method, you could capture the tuple status as well (e.g., my ($tuple,$rc) = $sth->execute_for_fetch(...);). Here are the contents of the test table after running this Perl program:

SELECT * FROM count_three;

+------+------+-------+
| col1 | col2 | col3  |
+------+------+-------+
| one  | two  | three | 
| uno  | due  | tre   | 
| eins | zwei | drei  | 
+------+------+-------+