Hi Monks, I'm trying to create a robust script that executes a for loop and calls different sql based on the value in $_ , but the "prepare" statement doesn't like the fact that it's a variable of a variable. Basically, I'm creating an excel spreadsheet using the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module and looping thru the multi-dimensional array to call each sql statement. Hopefully there is a way around this otherwise i'll have to hard code all of my prepare statements. And with Perl..there has to be a way. 

my @reports = (
    [doc_request => [qw(T_Doc_Request N_Doc_Request X_Doc_Request)]],
    [doc_errors  => [qw(T_Doc_Errors  N_Doc_Errors  X_Doc_Errors )]],
);

my $T_Doc_Request=qq{select.... };
my $N_Doc_Request=qq{select... };
my $X_Doc_Request=qq{select... };
my $T_Doc_Errors=qq{select.... };
my $N_Doc_Errors=qq{select... };
my $X_Doc_Errors=qq{select... };


for (@reports) {
    my $report = $_->[0];
        $worksheet->write(1, 0, $report, $header);
        $i++;
    for my $section (@{$_->[1]}) {
print qq{report '$report', section '$section'\n};
        $cell_column = 0;
        $worksheet->write($i, $cell_column,  $section,$format1);
        $cell_column++;

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the following does not work because $section ends up being T_Doc_Request and i need it to be $T_Doc_Request

        my $sth = $dbh->prepare($section);
        $sth->execute;
while ( my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array() ) {
                print ">@row<\n";
        $worksheet->write($i, $cell_column,  @row[$cell_column],$forma
+t1);
        
    }#end while
$sth->finish;
  }#end for section
}# end for report

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Any help is greatly appreciated thanks

In reply to Is it possible to call prepare statement with a variable of a variable? by dirtdog

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