You'll be wanting to use placeholders, which are described in further detail in the DBI docs. This gist of it would be the following, in the context of your code:

sub dbh{
    my ($statement, $dbh2, @values) = @_;
    my $sth = $dbh2->prepare($statement) or die "dbh2 = $dbh2 Couldn't
+ prepare statement: $statement ".$dbh2->errstr;
    $sth->execute(@values) or die "dbh2 = $dbh2 Couldn't execute state
+ment: $statement ".$dbh2->errstr;
    return $sth;
}

# ........................
sub insert_lexicon{

    my ($self) = @_;

    $statement = 'INSERT INTO lexicon (
        word,
        meaning,
        auid) VALUES(
        ?,
        ?,
        ?)';

    return ($statement);
}

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You basically put question-marks in the SQL statement, and pass a list of values to the $dbh->execute() method.

HTH

--
edan

In reply to Re: Module and variable place holders? by edan
in thread Module and variable place holders? by neilwatson

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