Hi all, I have some code that is behaving in a way I don't understand. I think I have isolated the issue to the following block of code. 

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysqlPP:host=localhost;database=foo",'bar'
+,'baz',{ AutoCommit => 1, RaiseError => 1});

... some stuff...

foreach my $color (@color){

            # trim whitespace
                   $color =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//gm;

                #  see if the color already exists in the color table.
                   my $rowCheckQuery = qq{SELECT color_id FROM color W
+HERE color=?};
                my $sth = $dbh->prepare($rowCheckQuery);
                $sth->execute($color);
}

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If I comment out the prepare and execute the foreach loop.... well, it loops. If I leave the prepare and execute in place the loop terminates on the first iteration. No errors, throw, no error strings, nothing. The loop just doesn't execute. To make it stranger this code worked when I was using MSSQL with DBI. It only stopped working when I switched to MySql. Thanks in advance!

In reply to Having issues with DBI by zoophagous

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