Hi. I'm having a little trouble with DBI... 

<snip>

  $dbqpinfo = $dbh->prepare(q{SELECT ? FROM pinfo WHERE name = ?})
    or die "Unable to prepare 'dbqpinfo': " . $dbh->errstr . "\n";

<snip>

  if ($type eq "password") {
    my $name = $login{$client}{'name'};
    $dbqpinfo->execute('passwd', "$name")
      or die "Unable to execute dbqpinfo: " . $dbh->errstr . "\n";
    my $password = $dbqpinfo->fetchrow_array();
    if (crypt("$input", 'llama') eq $password) {
      $user{$client} = $name;
      $client{$name} = $client;
      delete $login{$client};
    } else {
      $outbuffer{$client} .= "Incorrect password for $name! (disco use
+r)";
    }
  }

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The database has the columns name, passwd, created and laston.

Whenever this bit of code is called, $password gets 'passwd' (the column name!?). I've tried lots of different things with arrays, arrayrefs and the like, but I really don't know what is going on :(

Can anyone see anything I missed?

--
A frustrated llama.

In reply to DBI problem by Anonymous Monk

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