I'm querying for something using DBD::Oracle.

SELECT this FROM that WHERE foo=$findthis

foo is unique.
I quickly wrote this: 

<BR>$sth=$dbh->prepare(q{SELECT this FROM that WHERE <BR>foo=?});
<BR>$sth->execute($findthis);
<BR>($returnme) = $sth->fetchrow_array();

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but that doesn't handle strings that contain spaces. I've tried a number of different ways of doing it to handle spaces... and all fail. I tried qq{}, taking it out of q{} like: 

<BR>$findthis = "find me";
<BR>my $query = "SELECT this FROM that WHERE foo='$findthis'";
<BR>$sth=$dbh->prepare{$query);
<BR>...
<BR>doesn't work.  it prints SELECT this FROM that WHERE foo='find me'
+ 
<P>
I tried using sqlplus to throw queries directly at the db... and doing
+ just
<CODE>
SELECT this FROM that WHERE foo='find me';

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worked... so its obviously something about how I'm passing the query... any suggestions?

In reply to Perl/DBI/Oracle and strings with spaces by Majik

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