I'm doing some work on a database that has a table named 'customer-trans'. When working with the Mysql shell I have to surround this name with backticks. Trying that within Perl has not worked: 

$statement = 'SELECT trnemailaddress, activedate FROM
     `customer-trans` WHERE (UNIX_TIMESTAMP(activedate)
      + ? ) < (UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW());';

$sth = $dbh->prepare($statement) or die "Couldn't prepare statement:".
+$dbh->errstr;
$sth->execute($grace) or die "Couldn't prepare statement:".$dbh->errst
+r;

# get and print results
while ($ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()){

    print $ref->{'trnemailaddress'} . "\t\t\t". $ref->{'activedate'};

}

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Returns: 

DBD::mysql::st execute failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax.  
+Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for th
+e
 right syntax to use near '' at line 1 at ./chpasswd line 35.
Couldn't prepare statement:You have an error in your SQL syntax.  Chec
+k the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the ri
+g
ht syntax to use near '' at line 1 at ./chpasswd line 35.

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If I leave the backticks off I get an error that starts at -trans. Any suggestions?

Neil Watson
watson-wilson.ca

In reply to Oddly named Mysql table and backticks by neilwatson

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