Ok, I didn't have a very good response on my last question because it related to SQL. My problem appears to be that I need to send my dates with '' around them.

Can anyone help me out with my perl code?

Here's how my code was written.

#get mileage
my $sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT number, date, miles, purpose
FROM mileage
WHERE date BETWEEN ? and ?
ORDER BY date ?')
or print "Couldn't prepare statement: " . $dbh->errstr;

$sth->execute($from_date, $to_date, $sort_method) # Execute the query or print "Couldn't execute statement: " . $sth->errstr;

I need to have single quotes around the dates. If I try "BETWEEN '?' and '?'" it doesn't work. I tried putting a backslash before the quotes, but that didn't work either. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks

Jeremy

edited: Mon Sep 23 00:31:59 2002 by jeffa - (title change was: This one is perl related)

In reply to Quoted dates in SQL with placeholders by glickjd

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