The best is to use the prepare method with placeholders: 
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO whatever VALUES(?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?,
+ ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)")

while (<INFILE>)   {
      my @line = (parse_csv ($_)); 
      $sth->execute(@line);
}

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This has the benefit of taking care of the quoting for you, but also of adding a performance increase, as just having to prepare the query once will save some time, as opposed to the DBI 'do' subroutine, which has to prepare it each time.

In reply to Re: DBI Quoting question by plaid
in thread DBI Quoting question by perlcgi

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