Re^2: Perl DBI + Access bind issues

I'm unfamiliar with what the square brackets accomplish for Access, but that's the gist of it. You don't want do though, because you don't get a statement handle back from that. You need to either use prepare, execute, and one of the fetch... methods like fetchall_arrayref or you need to use one of the selectall... methods such as selectall_hashref.

For example:

my $sth = $dbh->prepare( "select ?,? from ? where ? = ?" );
$sth->execute( '[is Active?]' ,'[is Deleted?]', '[is Deleted?]', 1 );
my $array_ref = $sth->fetchall_arrayref;
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Re^3: Perl DBI + Access bind issues by KurtSchwind (Chaplain) on Dec 12, 2008 at 14:13 UTC
Right. Sorry. I know it's prepare/execute, not do. I was just giving the jist of the solution. I use DBI all the time for real databases. :) The square brackets are a type of quoting that Access uses because they allow freaking spaces and question marks in column and table names. -- I used to drive a Heisenbergmobile, but every time I looked at the speedometer, I got lost.	[reply]