Thanks. I thought blackslash was the right way to escape "%" in a SQL statement also, but I couldn't seem to get the syntax right.

I tried your recommendation, but all I managed to get was a different error: "Modification of a read-only value attempted at ..." and it gives me a reference to the line with the my @values = map { s/([_%])/\\$1/g; "%$_%" } bit. Maybe I didn't implement it quite right?

Here's what my test code looks like at the moment:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use DBI;
my $db = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:music.sqlite","","");
my @values = map { s/([_%])/\\$1/g; "%$_%" } ( 'pearl', 'temple');
my $like_clause = join( " or ", map { "Songs.Artist LIKE ?" } @values)
+;
my $sth = $db->prepare( "SELECT * FROM Songs where ($like_clause)" );
my $all = $sth->execute( @values ) or die("Failed to Execute SQL");

foreach my $row (@$all) {
my ($id, $Track, $Title, $Artist, $Album, $Year, $Genre, $Path) = @$ro
+w;
print "\nid: $id\nTrack: $Track\nTitle: $Title\nArtist: $Artist\nAlbum
+: $Album\nYear: $Year\nGenre: $Genre\nPath: $Path\n";

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Any other thoughts?

In reply to Re^2: SQL LIKE and Binding Variables by Mad_Mac
in thread SQL LIKE and Binding Variables by Mad_Mac

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