I would like to delete multiple rows in an mySQL table based on message "ids" I have in an array, @MESSAGE_IDS. The MESSAGE_ID array would have message id numbers (13, 14, 15, 19, 25, 44, etc...), each of which identify messages I would like to delete.

I would like to delete all of them with one Select and prepare statement, in "one fell swooop" if I can. My first reaction was to use a while loop like this:

while $i (@MESSAGE_IDS){
          my $sth = $dbh->prepare("DELETE * FROM table 
                                   WHERE message_id = '$message_id'");
          $sth->execute();
          # and so on ...
        }

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But apparently calling prepare and execute over and over is not a good way of deleting multiple rows. Is there a better dbi function or function to accomplish what I want without calling prepare and execute in a loop? Red------

In reply to Deleting Multiple MySQL Rows With DBI by Red Neckerson

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