Ok, I must be really tired and am not seeing the obvious. I did not think I would need to use placeholders here, but can obviously see the advantage. I was hoping to avoid changing the entire script.

you have $STH->execute (like_arg(....
I tried $sth->execute($Client,$Product,....)
and it failed. I tried looking for like_arg and realise it must be something obvious I cannot grasp. I guess I have been going at this too long... Trying to get this ready for tomorrow. DId not see my bug until end of day and need the functionality. I also thought of adding \ into the string, but realise that would be sloppy and I do not want that.

I am ready for the next tid bit of info if you are willing to forward it
Simon

In reply to Re: Re: Passing data from one perl script to another. by sdyates
in thread Problem constructing an SQL query with LIKE clauses by sdyates

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