Hello:

I want to make a search script where it allows the user to use a wild card function.

For example:
=> Search for: John *** Would pull up =>John Smith, John Jones C1938 John Johnson bka883, etc.

How would you do this using DBI? heres are some codes I tried, but no luck. 

use DBI;

 my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:CLTE') or die "Couldn't connect to 
+database: " . DBI->errstr;

       $sql = "
  SELECT * 
  FROM   clttable 
  WHERE clt = '$INPUT{'clt'}%'  #also tried replacing % with * charact
+er.
";
$sth = $dbh->prepare("$sql") or print "preparing: ",$dbh->errstr;
$sth->execute or print "executing: ", $dbh->errstr;


$row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref;
  $dbh->disconnect;

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I also tried taking out the %'s in the $sql varaible and typed "John*" in the $input{'clt'} field.

Thanks.

In reply to DBI and MySQL wild card function? by perleager

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