Building on what other monks have already stated, here is a pattern for you to use that might help with what you are trying to accomplish. I'm making a few assumptions here, but here goes: 

    my $queryObj = $db_handle->prepare(
qq(
insert into employee(id,first_name,last_name,
     address.line.2,address.line.3)
values
   (?,?,?,?,?,?)
)
) or die "Could not prepare query: ".$db_handle->errstr;

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Assuming you don't die due to syntax error, bad column names or other problems your next step somewhere in code would be 
      $queryObj->execute( ...insert value list here ...  )
           or die "Could not execute " . $queryObj->errstr;

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As merlyn pointed out, beware of SQL injection attacks. Before I pass data from a CGI form I'm going to do some cursory validation at the very least if not stringent validation to make sure I'm getting back in my CGI input what I expected and not bad stuff.

Also, using placeholders and/or variable binding makes use of some of the strengths of using DBI in the first place. Otherwise it isn't worth the overhead.

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg

In reply to Re: Error adding a record into a MySQL table: 'Unknown column ...' by blue_cowdawg
in thread Error adding a record into a MySQL table: 'Unknown column ...' by stanleyscup

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