I've been out of the mysql and perl game for quite a few years and can't seem to get this right. I have a table with just 3 columns. 'cnt' is one of them. All I want to do is query the table on 'name' and see if name exists. If it does, I want to capture the value of 'cnt'. The table has a record of testName with a value of 2 I added manually. When this script is run it returns empty. 
      my $pop = qq(SELECT cnt FROM popular WHERE name="testName");
      my $sth = $dbh->prepare($pop);
      $sth->execute() or die $dbh->errstr;

        my @return;
        while (@return = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
            $count = $return[1];
}

print "our return count is $count";

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Is it obvious to anyone what I did wrong?

In reply to Simple mysql select not working by Anonymous Monk

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