Hi, I am using the Perl DBI for some simple communication with a mysql database. One of my data fields consists of fairly long strings and each time I try to insert one of these strings into the database like so: 
my $inserthandle = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO DATA (LongData) VALUES (
+'$longstring');

$inserthandle->execute or die $DBI::errstr;

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I get the following error: 
DBD::mysql::st execute warning: at ./script line 121
Died at ./crcdb line 121

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I am using a longtext data type within the DB so I know this is ok. Is there an issue with passing long strings via the DBI? I should mention that the code works fine if I pass shorter strings to the $longstring variable
Thanks in advance,
tb34

In reply to perl DBI String length problem by travisbickle34

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