I think repson must be right that you meant to use $query->fetchrow_array instead of $dbh->selectrow_array($query).

However, the $dbh->select... methods can take an already prepared statement handle as the first argument. This allows you to prepare the statement once ahead of time, and then execute it with select... many times. For example: 

my $sth = $dbh->prepare(<<EndOfSQL);
  SELECT name
  FROM   item
  WHERE  id = ?
EndOfSQL

while (<>) {
  chomp;
  if (($name) = $dbh->selectrow_array($sth, {}, $_)) {
    print "$_ => $name\n";
  } else {
    print "$_ not found\n";
  }
}

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In reply to Re: Re: More DBI Problems!!! by chipmunk
in thread More DBI Problems!!! by grax

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