in reply to Bitten by the lazy execution bug?

if ( my @vals = /<regex>/ ) {
    $dbh->do( $sql, undef, @vals )
        or die " ... ";
}

[download]

That's much safer because it avoids all the crap about magic vars.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom