I have a quick question about a DBI/DBH. I pull in two fields from the user from a form: LastName and Birthdate...I have all the validation completed for birthday, but now I'm having problems with the lastname information. Basically if a users last name is say O'Tool my SQL statement appears to DIE because of the extra ' in the persons lastname. Is there anything I can do, to take "O'Tool" without thinking the ' is apart of the sql? Here is my statement:
my $yi = $dbh->prepare("

SELECT SSN, RTRIM(LAST_NAME,' '), TO_CHAR(BIRTH_DATE,'YYYY'), STORE
FROM PYHADMIN.PY_EMP_SHADOW
where TO_CHAR(BIRTH_DATE,'YYYY') like '$year'
and SSN like '%$ssn'
and RTRIM(LAST_NAME,'  ') like upper('$name')
and rownum <= 1

        ");
$yi->execute();

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