Mad_Mac:

Nah, you don't need the concatenation operators. That's why I put the map in there. I think you're getting stuck on making the SQL concatenate the strings together, rather than letting perl do it for you.

Think of it this way, you get a list of artists to search for:

my @inc_artists = ( 'Watson', 'Cline', 'Horne' );

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The first chunk of code would generate an SQL statement that looks like:

SELECT SongTitle, SongPath FROM Songs
WHERE (Songs.Artist LIKE ?)
OR    (Songs.Artist LIKE ?)
OR    (Songs.Artist LIKE ?)

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The map statement with the execute wraps your artist names with the '%' symbols you want, so they end up look like:

 ( '%Watson%', '%Cline%', '%Horne%' );

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Finally, the execute statement would effectively have a statement like:

SELECT SongTitle, SongPath FROM Songs
WHERE (Songs.Artist LIKE '%Watson%')
OR    (Songs.Artist LIKE '%Cline%')
OR    (Songs.Artist LIKE '%Horne%')

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which is what I think you want to feed to SQLite.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re^3: Error with DBI and Strawberry Perl under 64 bit W7 by roboticus
in thread Error with DBI and Strawberry Perl under 64 bit W7 by Mad_Mac

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