Please enclose code in <c> ... </c> brackets. It makes it much easier for others to help you.

As I am not working on a Windows system, I can't test this, but I believe you need to enclose the variable names in double quotes. You'll need to escape them so they get passed through in the SQL statement though.

my $SQL = "SELECT \"$field1\", \"$field2\", \"$field3\" FROM \"$table\
+"";

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Or such.

You might be better off using DBIx to handle your SQL so you can use placeholders and avoid the whole headache of trying to figure out how and when to quote the fields.

In reply to Re: error returned in Win32::OLE module with mdb file's tables and cloumns having whitespace characters in their names. by thundergnat
in thread error returned in Win32::OLE module with mdb file's tables and cloumns having whitespace characters in their names. by srikantvm

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