I've also been painfully made aware that my search terms (@q_names) are being quoted, irrespective of SQL's datatype for this field, or of the data in my field. As an example: 
SELECT `status`, `rma_num`, `auth_id`, `vendor`, `part_num` FROM rma_l
+ist WHERE ('status') = ('0');

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is now being generated, which returns 0 rows, as status is an integer. My code for $query has been extrapolated from your elegant example as: 
my $query = "SELECT "
    . join(", ", map { $dbh->quote_identifier($_) } @q_return)
    . " FROM rma_list WHERE ("
    . join(', ', ('?') x (keys %q_search))
    . ") = ("
    . join(', ', ('?') x @q_names)
    . ");";

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It seems obvious to me that my code isn't placing these quotes on the search items, so I guess DBI's substitution is. Is there a way to force this off for integer only variables? Or a different substitution character?

In reply to Re^2: Perl Mysql DBI, using placeholders with unknown variable count by Haioken
in thread Perl Mysql DBI, using placeholders with unknown variable count by Haioken

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