> -----Original Message----- > From: bernabe diaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: variable interpolation > > > Hi everyone, > could somebody help me with the following problem: > i have a code something like that > my $variable = CGI->param('NAME'); > #making connection to database > ................................. > my $variable_ =$dbh->quote($variable); > ......... > > $sth = ->$dbh->prepare(" SELECT something FROM some_table WHERE ^^ This is a syntax error, no?
> some_key=$variable_") > ............ > > then when I try to pass $variable_ to a SQL statment the value of > $variable_ was not passed > so i can't fetch information fro the database. > when i give the string to the SELECT statement directly > every thing is > fine, is working, that's why > I consider that it is a problem of interpolation of the variable . We can't see what the contents of $variable_ are, so we can't tell what the problem is. What *exactly* is being passed to the prepare() call? IOW, try something like this: my $sql = "select * from foo where name=$variable_"; print $sql, "\n"; my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die $DBI::errstr; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
