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Ugh. You're right; printf was the culpret. print showed it properly formatted ... and as it turned out, the SQL was being generated and passed correctly to the engine. My printf diagnostic commands were what was wrong.

Ok, my bad, no issue. apologies.

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Re^3: Escaping % sign in a like string bound for SQL
by LanX (Saint) on Nov 12, 2018 at 22:17 UTC
    This happens to all of us.

    You're welcome! :)

    Cheers Rolf
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      Thank you!
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