Newbie question--isqlperl text blob insert

Hello, I have a question relating to isqlperl v1.2, running on a SPARC10 (SunOS4.1.3). Frankly, I'm not sure whether this is a perl question or an Informix question, as I'm fairly new to both. What I am trying to do is insert data from an array (obtained by slurping lines of a text file using <> ) into a text blob (a column of type TEXT). I gather that to do this in ESQL/C one uses the loc_t type...How does one do this in isqlperl? I, naively, tried something like the following: # Reading the data into the array @ary # $count = 0; open(FILE, "datafile") || die "Can't open file! $!\\n"; while(<FILE>) { $ary[$count++] = $_; } # prepare cursor to insert @ary into 'mydata' table # $table = 'mydata'; $insert = &isql_open(<<EOI) || die $isql_code; insert into $table(inv_data) values(?) EOI # insert it # &isql_execute($insert, (@ary)) || die $isql_code; That last line is bad, giving the error "-1213 Character to numeric conversion error" Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, -MK -- Michael Kerry |"Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" mkerry@eng.umd.edu | -The Mad Hatter Institute for Systems Research |"Because the notes for which they are noted University of Maryland | are not noted for being musical notes." -Sam Loyd