I think you're the OP is misunderstanding the use of placeholders here. Typically you would use placeholders like so 

my $sql = q{SELECT * FROM tblX WHERE condition = ?};

$sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute($value_to_sub_for_question_mark);

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So it seems what you are trying to do is have a long list of placeholders and then specify the values to use for the placeholders sometime before the execute is called. You want the statement to have all the ? marks in it. It doesn't need to be re-prepped that way. (Part of the beauty of placeholders)

However to do what you are wanting i think you would do this 

my $sql = q{SELECT * FROM tblX WHERE condition1 = ? and condition2 = ?
+};
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute(@array);

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That is untested and you may need to put the array in list context, but i think that's your intent.. just a guess

Grygonos

In reply to Re: Explanation of Code Problem by Grygonos
in thread Explanation of Code Problem by Anonymous Monk

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