This is my first foray into the mystical workings of the DBI module, and I am stuck on a small problem. I am working with MySQL running on Windows 98SE, and I am attempting to load a pipe delimited file into a table. I know that I am successfully connecting to the database itself, but when I execute the statement to insert the data into the table, I get the following error:
DBD::mysql:st execute failed: Column count doesn't match value count a
+t row 1 at dbtest.pl line 22

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As usual, here's the code:
#!perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;
my $DS="dbi:mysql:QuizTaker";
my $User="tstanley";
my $File="A_Plus_Core.psv";

open(FH,"$File")||die"Can't open $File: $!\n";
my @Array=<FH>;
close FH;

my $DBH=DBI->connect($DS,$User)||die"Can't connect: $DBI::errstr\n";
my $AnswerE="NULL";

foreach my $element(@Array){
  my($TN,$Question,$AnswerA,$AnswerB,$AnswerC,$AnswerD,$Correct)=split
+ /\|/,$element;
  chomp($Correct);
  my $STH=$DBH->prepare_cached(<<SQL);
  INSERT INTO Questions values(?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)
SQL

  $STH->execute($TN,$Question,$AnswerA,$AnswerB,$AnswerC,$AnswerD,$Ans
+werE,$Correct);
}

$DBH->disconnect;

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And here is the SQL statement I used to create the table in question:
create table Questions(Test_Number integer(2) NOT NULL,
                       Question varchar(255) NOT NULL,
                       Answer_A varchar(255) NOT NULL,
                       Answer_B varchar(255) NOT NULL,
                       Answer_C varchar(255),
                       Answer_D varchar(255),
                       Answer_E varchar(255),
                       Correct_Answer varchar(10));

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Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

TStanley
--------
"Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a
member of Congress... But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain

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