Hi Everybody
I'm just starting off with perl. My task is to generate SQL queries based on criteria from various fields in a table in a database. The queries are against another table. For this I found SQL::Abstract. Everything is cool apart from where I have data in the format X|Y|Z I need to split this into a where clause like "where DocumentReference in ('X','Y','Z');". The code I've tried is 
if ( $DocumentReference ) {
  if( index($DocumentReference,"|") >= 0){
    $DocumentReference =~ s/|/,/g;
    $where{DocumentRef}{'-in'} = ['$DocumentReference']; # also tried 
+=[$DocumentReference]
  }else{
    $where{DocumentRef} = $DocumentReference;
  }
}

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The database column is named DocumentRef. I'm using $where rather than the %where way of doing things mentioned on the cpan page, because I'm trying to build this string up conditionally. The sql generated works perfectly unless it hits a field where I need to generate an 'in' clause. If someone could point me in the right direction I'd be really happy. Thanks
Sarah.

In reply to difficulty with SQL::Abstract '-in' clauses by Anonymous Monk

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