Hi Monks!
This is a sample part of a code I am working on and I have a questions about adding "Place Holders" to the variables "$fromdate" and "$todate" on the SQL query, how could I accomplish something like that? Has anyone here done something like that that could help me with this?
I commented out what I was trying, but it didn't work. Thanks for the help!
if($number eq "all")
  {
    $select = '';
    
    if($fromdate || $todate)
      {
              $bet = "and CONVERT(CHAR(10),tdate,101) between '$fromda
+te' and '$todate'";
              #$bet = "and CONVERT(CHAR(10),tdate,101) between '?' and
+ '?'";
       }else{
              $bet = 'and tdate = (Select Max(tdate) From mytable) ord
+er by tdate desc';
             }                   
         
  }else{
         
         $select = "and number='$number'";
         
         if($fromdate || $todate)
       {
               $bet = "and CONVERT(CHAR(10),tdate,101) between '$fromd
+ate' and '$todate'";
               #$bet = "and CONVERT(CHAR(10),tdate,101) between '?' an
+d '?'";
        }else{
               $bet = 'order by tdate desc'; 
              }

         
  }



my $all = join ( ',', ('?') x @list );

my $sql = $dbh->exec_select( "SELECT tdate,account,name FROM mytable W
+HERE  number in ($all) $select $bet ", @list);
#my $sql = $dbh->exec_select( "SELECT tdate,account,name FROM mytable 
+WHERE  number in ($all) $select $bet ", @list, $fromdate, $todate);

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