As others have pointed out, $mwsdbh is undefined at that point in your subroutine. What does your connect look like? Are you checking for errors there? Easiest thing would be to set RaiseError in the connect (see the DBI docs). If $mwsdbh is set at some point in your code, then we'd need to know the context of where it is set and where this sub is (are they in different packages?).

I would also take the advice to 'use strict', and start using my instead of local (unless you're still using perl 4, and then I'd say upgrade if at all possible).

In reply to Re: Can't call method "prepare" on an undefined value by runrig
in thread Can't call method "prepare" on an undefined value by Massyn

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