Tudor,

As mentioned in other replies on here, from the program listing, it appears that $dbh and $sth should be declared with my, similar to what is being used for other variables in your program. $sth, because it is first used in an eval block, should be first declared outside the block with my $sth;.

The eval for $sth = $dbh->prepare($SQL); may be overkill for error checking, normally for preparing statements I use code like my $sth = $dbh->prepare($SQL) or die "..."; depending on program requirements. Changing that can also allow you to declare the variable with "my" and assign it in one statement. Also, I noticed that the prepare statement is being checked for errors, but not execute.

Thanks,

techy
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In reply to Re: Global symbol "$dbh" requires explicit package name by techy
in thread Global symbol "$dbh" requires explicit package name by tudor

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