I understand what you are saying... We used "yield" to return from the 
method, otherwise I was essentially returning the dbh.disconnect.

Calling the method is writing to standard out... My question is, how do 
I get that standard output into a local variable or some other usable 
form?  I need to assign it to a variable and then compare it to another 
variable later...
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