> On Jun 3, 2015, at 6:57 AM, William Bulley <w...@umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> Yep, I've been all over the net looking for this issue.  I am not
> doing anything wrong -- the "invalid string" is the darn "?"!!!


Make sure your original $query is delimited by double quotes, not single. 

if you do $sth->prepare(‘select column from table where column = ?’); you’ll 
get that error.

That’s the only way the ? would get past DBI, I’d think, which is what your 
oracle error seems to be indicating.


-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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