Thanks for the help, but still no luck. One thing I didn't make clear was that both the subs remove and get are in a module seperate of the main one. Remove is called externally and unless it returns true, the main script reacts. The row at the end of that sub makes sure that unless $rows>0 it returns undef and causes the external script to fail (unless I made a drastic error there, although the same script works fine with the 10 other calls to DBI).

Before I came here I had checked (ie. got proof of) as much as I could. $rows is definitely 1, $dat1 is the id I need and the exact same method works for INSERT and UPDATE calls properly so I don't think that's part of the problem.

Advice taken about placeholders. Is the point so that you don't need to prepare every call?

In reply to Re: DBI, rows, and do by drrngrvy
in thread DBI, rows, and do by drrngrvy

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