my $self = shift; In the next line I want to go through each item in $self->tsids which is declared as $self->{tsids} = []; thus the line

    foreach my $var($self->tsids) {
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This line my $name = new profile($var); is to create a new object for each value in $self->tsids

I already have a DBI handle my $connection = $self->connection;

Then I prepare my statement using a placeholder my $sth = $connection->connection->prepare( "SELECT  Last_Name = LastName, First_Name = FirstName, Middle_Name = MidName, Job_Title = JobTitle, Birthdate = Birthdate FROM table WHERE database_wide_key = ?" );

This is probably the offending line my @names = ($var);

This is the line where it diesmy $rc = $sth->execute(@names) or die "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that";

I initially got an error message that the database MS TSQL 6.5 could not implicity convert a VARCHAR to an INT which made me think that Perl was interpolating $var into a "string".

When I use the CONVERT statement, Convert(int, varchar) ?, it tells me that it cannot convert VARCHAR ARRAY(XXXXXXX) into a INT which leads me to believe that I am incorrectly dereferencing the array.This is where I am stuck.

The rest of the code is meant to populate the properties of the object created by the foreach loop.

   my $fieldnames = $sth->{NAME};

   while(my $row = $sth->fetch) {

    for (0 .. ( scalar @{ $fieldnames } -1 )) { $_ = '' unless defined
+; 

    $_ =~ s/\s//g;
   my $prop = $fieldnames->[ $_ ];
   my $val = $row->[ $_];
   $name->$prop($val);
   }
    }
    }
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