Update: Never mind, there's enough responses here already

As mentioned before, you need to change that loop. Here is my offering:

sub MysqlIN {

# Why is that '@_' in there, are you passing in an
# array of three values?
# That's what I'll assume, so I'll change this line
#my %dateparts = ( YEAR => '', MONTH => '', DAY => '', @_, );
# To this:
my %dateparts = ( YEAR=>shift, MONTH=>shift, DAY=>shift );
my $element;

while (my ($name, $value) = each %dateparts) {
 # Number validation added
 die "Invalid value for $name" unless $value and $value=~/^\d+$/;
 # You don't need to exit, you already died!
 # exit;
}

my $mysqldate = join ("-", @dateparts{qw(YEAR MONTH DAY)});

return $mysqldate;
}

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In reply to RE: Validating hash values by runrig
in thread Validating hash values by rodry

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