Greetings all,
One suggestion would be to prepare the statement with ?'s and then re-use it for each line.
The following code is untested... you have been warned. 
$dbh->{RaiseError} = 1;
my $sql = "INSERT INTO $table(".join(',',@fields).") VALUES(".join(','
+,(map{'?'}@fields)).")";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);

#line by line from your file
while(<INPUT>){
    #do your split and execute here.
    $sth->execute((split /\t/,$_));
}

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The ?'s will handle the quoting for you, DBI is nice that way.
This assumes that its the same $table for each line, but it saves the overhead of preparing the query each time.

-InjunJoel
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -Galileo

In reply to Re: Looking for elegant solution to dbi coding problem by injunjoel
in thread Looking for elegant solution to dbi coding problem by Commander Salamander

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