Well yes, you have a problem assigning to the scalar $SqlStatement (among other things, please check out CGI).

For this particular problem, you're need to quote the statement correctly. You're missing the initial quote. 

$SqlStatement = "insert into people values('" .
                $FORM_DATA{'first_name'} .
                "','" .
                $FORM_DATA{'last_name'} .
                "','" .
                $currentdate .
                "')";

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Here I just took the simplistic approach with the string concat operator "." but you could use heredocs. Also you may want to look at DBI's quote method or placeholders so you don't have to do the database single quoting.

-derby

In reply to Re: Syntax errors? by derby
in thread Syntax errors with Win32::ODBC? by CodeNewbie

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