Ah, yes, this is exactly what I had wanted.
Thank you.
I guess that I missed reading:

In a scalar context, fetchrow_array returns the value of the first fie
+ld. An undef is returned if there are no more rows or if an error occ
+urred. Since that undef can't be distinguished from an undef returned
+ because the first field value was NULL, you should exercise some cau
+tion if you use fetchrow_array in a scalar context.
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from the DBI perldoc
Also, I suppose that I could be using the other select*_*() DBI functions instead of the extra prepare and execute calls.

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