Great suggestions. I was trying to be pedantic with RaiseError and "..or die" there. Probably cut and paste all over the place trying to track down the source of the problem.

You mentioned using a more generalized conneciton method, which makes sense, however.. how do I pass artguments between subs, yet retain their ability to stay local? In the example above, you mentioned using:

my ($dbh, $article_id) = @_;

..except I'll never know which arguments are passed to $dbh each time. Somtimes it may be one argument, sometimes 20 arguments, so I'll have to construct that inside the sub (not global), after I know the arguments that are going to be passed, right? In this case, that means I have to recreate that handle in each sub where it's used.

Herein lies one part of the equation I'm not familiar with; passing locals between subs as arguments, but never knowing how many arguments will be passed beforehand.

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