tachyon has developed an excellent sample, and chromatic has pointed you in the direction of improving it.

Combining the two gives both simple and effective code. What you're looking for is an in clause in your SQL. It meshes very nicely with join in Perl: 

my @company_ids = qw(10 15 20);    # for example
my $where = 'where company_id in (' . join(',', @company_ids) . ')';

# insert the where clause at the bottom of the sql
$sql = END_SQL;
select comp_name
from   companies
$where
END_SQL

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I think it's a little clearer when it's all combined, but that's more a matter of taste: 
$sql = <<END_OF_SQL;
    select comp_name
    from   companies
    where  company_id in ( @{[join(',', @company_ids)]} )
END_OF_SQL

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HTH

In reply to Re: Dynamic Query by VSarkiss
in thread Dynamic Query by qball

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