Sorry, it's me again. I hope I'm not bugging you with the questions or get the idea I don't want to figure this out on my own but I am really stuck on this one.

I took your suggestion and printed the statement and recieved 


C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\scripts>perl form.pl
SELECT engine, lable1, lable2, lable3, lable4, settings1, settings2, s
+ettings3, settings4 FROM special_fields WHERE engine IN (".join(",",m
+ap(->quote (), )).") AND (settings1="public" OR settings2="public" OR
+ settings3="public")
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\scripts>

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I've reread it quite a few times now and I don't see anything misplaced or missing.

Of course that's assuming you meant for me to do 

print qq(SELECT engine, lable4, settings1, settings2 FROM special_fiel
+ds WHERE engine IN (".join(",",map($dbh->quote($_), @choices)).") AND
+ 
(settings1="public" OR settings2="public" OR settings3="public"));
# removed some of the columns just to clean it up a bit

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I carefully counted the open and close parens around the JOIN and all of them were there, including the last paren after public").

I also went ahead and tried again after creating the array and something looks weird about it printing out every element at once, I sort of expected it to only print one. 


C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\scripts>perl form.pl
SELECT engine, lable1,settings3, settings4 FROM special_fields WHERE e
+ngine IN (".join(",",map(->quote
(), red blue orange green)).") AND
(settings1="public" OR settings2="public" OR settings3="public" )
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\scripts>

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In reply to Re^6: in, ands, ors in query (qq) by Anonymous Monk
in thread in, ands, ors in query by Anonymous Monk

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