Hello Wise Monks,

I am stuck. I've been searching all over the web for a way to query table names and fields with spaces in the name. I'm using DBI to access a microsoft access database using odbc. I've tried several ways to do it and no luck. Here's some of the code that I have tried so far.

my $sqlstatement="SELECT * FROM \'MPCCA ALL INVENTORY\' WHERE Campus =
+ 'VT'";

my $sqlstatement="SELECT * FROM 'MPCCA ALL INVENTORY' WHERE Campus = '
+VT'";

my $sqlstatement="SELECT * FROM MPCCA ALL INVENTORY WHERE Campus = 'VT
+'";

my $sqlstatement="SELECT * FROM 'MPCCA ALL INVENTORY' WHERE \'Type Equ
+ipment\' = 'Computer'";

my $sqlstatement="SELECT * FROM 'MPCCA ALL INVENTORY' WHERE Type Equip
+ment = 'Computer'";

my $sqlstatement="SELECT * FROM 'MPCCA ALL INVENTORY' WHERE 'Type Equi
+pment' = 'Computer'";

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It's an old database and changing the names of the fields isn't an option. Any help would be very appreciated.

In reply to Simple Select Query by bkiahg

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