Brethern and cistern, I petition you. My forehead is much flatter than it was and my monitor is cracked.

I have an object where $self->things is an array. I would like to fill XXXXXXX in the code below with the name of the current $self->things and then do a query on each things name. 

{
    my $self = shift;
    my $slobbo = "select * from bleh where whatever = ";
    my $connection = $self->connection;

foreach ($self->things) {
    my $name = new thang($_);
    my $thangsname = XXXXXXX
    my $sth = $connection->connection->prepare( $slobbo.$thangsname );
}
}

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I have tried everything that I can think of. I have used tye's References Quick Reference, which I found wonderfully enlightening. Every time I try to view that concatenated SQL query, the name of thing is missing.

Please help.

In reply to Dereference an array reference by fmogavero

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