I think I've been looking at this code for too long, I'm totally missing where my error is. The code executes, but none of the rows are updated. No error is returned either, I printed the data as it went through, all the id's match up in the database. I'm not truncating the strings anywhere. I've gotta be missing something or smoking too much crack.

for (@usercodelist) {
  my $SQL = "UPDATE mytable SET subscribed = '0', unsubscribedby = 'SY
+STEM' WHERE usercode = '$_' AND unsubscribedby = ''";
  my $sth = $DBH->prepare($SQL);
  $sth->execute || die "Could not execute SQL statement ... maybe inva
+lid?<BR>$!";
  $sth->finish();
}

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The @usercodelist array is a list of MD5 hashes, the database is MySQL.

Field           DataType
-----           --------
subscribed      tinyint(1)
usercode        varchar(32) binary
subscribedby    varchar(32) binary
unsubscribedby  varchar(32) binary
unsubscribedby  varchar(32) binary

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Sample Row:

subscribed  usercode                         subscribed by  unsubscrib
+ed by
1           7436692b91879380d9108739eb9865f5 SYSTEM

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Thanks in advance!!

--
paul

In reply to DB Not UPDATE-ing by vbrtrmn

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