my $sth = $dbh->prepare( "SELECT alpha FROM main WHERE alpha LIKE '%$search_ip %'" );
$sth->execute();
my ($complete_match) = $sth->fetchrow_array;
##</code><code>##

$template->param(cm => $complete_match);
print $CGI->header( );
print $CGI->title("returned data!");
print $template->output;

##</code><code>##

HTML::Template::param() : attempt to set parameter 'cm' with a scalar - parameter is not a TMPL_VAR! at /var/www/asd/www.pl line 60