You can, however, do something along the lines of: 

  my $sql = '... WHERE foo IN (' . join(',', ('?') x scalar( @values )
+) . ') ...';

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in order to generate the proper placeholder-based statement that you can then pass your parameters into.

See also DBIx::PreQL.

Update: As per BrowserUK (below), in order to make use of this, you either need to prepare your query each time, cache your prepared query based on number of parameters using prepare_cached or some other method, or know that the number of parameters will be the same each and every time.

--MidLifeXis

In reply to Re: Answer: What are placeholders in DBI, and why would I want to use them? by MidLifeXis
in thread What are placeholders in DBI, and why would I want to use them? by btrott

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