Corion is right in using the questionmarks. In DBI this would look like this:

my $sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT * FROM table WHERE name=? AND id=?');
$sth->execute($name, $id);
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but I'm not sure wether or not this provides the quoting...(sure, some other Monk will know ;-) ) Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'