From: Vivek Khera
Date: March 25 1999 2:41pm
Subject: Re: Extracting a given row using Perl API
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>>>>> "WRM" == William R Mattil <wrmattil@stripped> writes:

WRM> works while the following does not;

WRM> my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT first,last,phone FROM $table WHERE
WRM> phone_book.last=$FOO");

WRM> Where $FOO = 'Blow'; And the error message returned is as follows:


Try this:

print "SELECT first,last,phone FROM $table WHERE phone_book.last=$FOO";

and see if you think that's a valid SQL statement to do what you
want.  I don't think it will be.


								v.

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