I would do something like this: 


my @items_to_include = qw/1 11 45 73 27/;

my $query = "SELECT * FROM catalog WHERE ";
$query .= join " OR ", ("item_id=?") x @items_to_include;

my $sth = $dbh->prepare($query);
$sth->execute(@items_to_include);

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It's not that ugly, IMHO.

$query is generated dynamically, and it is always a valid query. Also, there will always be the same number of question mark placeholders as bind variables. And it still has the upside that you get to use placeholders for the (I assume) untrusted data in @items_to_include.

blokhead

In reply to Re: Using OR in SELECT statments safely by blokhead
in thread Using OR in SELECT statments safely by sz

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