Thanks!

You've taught me a couple of things. However, this seems to work best for my needs: 
my $sql = qq{SELECT * FROM $table WHERE (MATCH(Author) AGAINST(? IN BO
+OLEAN MODE)) order by Title};

my $executable = '+'. $melville . ' +' . $herman;

$ding -> execute($executable) or   die   DBI->errstr;

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Though I haven't used it, I gather that the "quote" function you suggested would offer the same sort of protection from sql injection attacks that using placeholders does.

Question: Why the addition of the "quote_identifier" function? I experimented with it and couldn't find that it made any difference to the other code. (And as such, it sort of muddied the issue.) And it's not a user inputted variable, so it's not a safety issue as far as I know....Or am I missing something?

In reply to Re^2: DBI/DBD::mysql placeholders and full text searches by Gnat53
in thread DBI:MYSQL placeholders and full text searches by Gnat53

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