Hi Monks!

I am trying to concatenate these values to pass to my SQL call as this because of other logic I have:
…
my $string = ${middle}."%".', '.${last}.', '.${first};

my $sql = ” SELECT  MIDDLE, LAST, FIRST
FROM   mytable
WHERE  MIDDLE  like ? AND LAST = ? AND FIRST = ?   order by FIRST asc”

my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die "Prepare Error: $DBI::errstr";
       $sth->execute($string) or die "SQL Error: $DBI::errstr\n";
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I am getting an error as :
called with 1 bind variables when 3 are needed

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Some how it treats the values in “$string” as one, is there a way of doing this?

Thanks for looking!

In reply to Values concatenation for SQL query by Anonymous Monk

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