Monks, i have some problem in the following program.

I have databse named login and table test. I have two columns namely user and passwd(encrypted password using PASSWORD()).

What i want is to compare the password given by the user with the database. When i get the user name and password from the user through the form, i am not able to match the password using PASSWORD() function with the password in the database. This is the coding i tried. I am not able to fetch the data from the database if i used PASSWORD(), but if i removed the function, it is working properly.

The same coding is working in another system with PASSWORD(), am i missing something?

#!C:\perl\bin\perl
#use strict;
use CGI;
use DBI;

############### cgi header part #############

$q = new CGI;
print $q->header("text/html");
print $q->start_html(-title=>"details" -bgcolor =>"#FFEAA9");

################ database handling #########

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:login", {PrintError =>0, RaiseError 
+=>0}) ;    #automatic error checking
##DBI->trace(2);
#
my $nam = $q->param('name');
my $pas = $q->param('pass');

my $data = qq(select * FROM test WHERE user='anniyan' and passwd = PAS
+SWORD (?));
#print "$nam\t$pas\n";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare($data);
 $sth->execute($pas);
while ((@ar) = $sth->fetchrow_array())
{
print "@ar\n";
}

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Regards,
Anniyan

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