I'm using DBI with Oracle (don't know which version) and Perl 5.004 (not my decision) for some rather complex queries and I've found that I want to be able to do the following: 
my $values = join ",", @values; # This is 1 to N values
my $sql = <<END_SQL;
SELECT COUNT(*)
  FROM some_table
 WHERE some_column IN (?)
END_SQL

my $sth = $dbh->prepare_cached($sql) || die;

$sth->execute($values) || die;

while ($sth->fetch) {
    # Do stuff
}

$sth->finish || die;

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But, I cannot. The only solution I've found is to put $values directly into the prepare, which negates the prepare_cached() benefits. Does anyone have a better way?

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In reply to DBI question with placeholders and IN by dragonchild

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