$sth=$dbh->prepare(q{SELECT this FROM that WHERE
foo=?});
$sth->execute($findthis);
($returnme) = $sth->fetchrow_array(); but that doesn't handle strings that contain spaces. I've tried a number of di fferent ways of doing it to handle spaces... and all fail. I tried qq{}, taking it out of q{} like: #### select x from y where
this=?