in reply to Place holders in SQL query

Not saying it is best but you could do this. Change your map to be 'map {"state=?"} @$citydata'. Then pull the states out of @$citydata and into an array and pass this array to the exec_select().

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Re^2: Place holders in SQL query
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 10, 2014 at 15:14 UTC
    Thats where I am stuck; "Then pull the states out of @$citydata and into an array and pass this array to the exec_select()"
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      my @states = map {$_->{state}} @$citydata;
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exec_select(sql, @states);

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        It worked!
         my $citydata = $dbh->exec_select( "select city,state from mytable whe
+re city  = ?", $city );

 my @states = map {$_->{state}} @$citydata;
 my $statedata = join ' OR ', map { "state = ?" } @$citydata;

 my $codedata = $dbh->exec_select( "select code from othertable where 
+(year=2014 and ($statedata)), @states );

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        Thanks for the help!
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