Ok, I maybe I hit a wrong button and replied at the wrong level. I am a "new guy" in this forum and I say, please don't take offense! None at all was intended! I only had two main points:
1) simple SQL statements - unnecessary escapes like: \"
2) simplify de-referencing a list ref

I hear: " Just adding quotes around the contents of $ID doesn't properly convert it from arbitrary text into an SQL string literal... "

From my experience so far, "prepare" appears to do exactly that! The prepare method is much smarter than I would have thought. This is what amazed me! And I mentioned this in my post. This thing gets a string from Perl and then applies its own "rules".

How "prepare" gets the "real" value of $ID is a mystery to me. But it does! I have several programs that work with this syntax.

As far as de-referencing lists, we are "on the same page.

In reply to Re^4: perl, mysql: "fetchrow_array failed: fetch() without execute()" by Marshall
in thread perl, mysql: "fetchrow_array failed: fetch() without execute()" by gojira

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