From the tone and content of your post, I can tell you are thoughtful and serious about this work. The tone of the replies seem a bit harsh, but I'm sure that is because we are shocked, shocked I say, by the code in the script. ;-) Don't take the tone too personally, but do try to address the issues brought up.

In particular, using place holders isn't hard at all Read up on DBI recipes for detailed help.

Since you are new to Perl, it might not seem easy, but keep at it and it will.

good luck

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In reply to Re: MySQL Data Insertion Errors w/ Perl by freddo411
in thread MySQL Data Insertion Errors w/ Perl by ingsoc747

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