in reply to Best Perlish way to test if a mysql table exists?

my %tables;
   $tables{$_} = scalar( @{$dbh->selectcol_arrayref("SHOW TABLES LIKE 
+'$_'")} ) foreach ( @tables_to_query );

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will result in the %tables hash having either a 1 or 0 for whether or not each table in @tables_to_query exists.

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