Hey All,

Can anyone see any bugs here, it seems to be erroring when it gets to execute() but i cant see any errors at all:
if (defined $status)    {
    $statement = $dbh->prepare('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM name WHERE status
+ = "' . "$status" . '"') or die DBI->errstr;
    } else     {
    $statement = $dbh->prepare('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM name WHERE age = 
+"4"') or die DBI->errstr;
    $status = 'OPEN';
     }
    $sth = $dbh->prepare($statement) or die print "Couldn't prepare st
+atement: $DBI::errstr; stopped";
    $sth->execute() or die print "Couldn't execute statement: $DBI::er
+rstr; stopped";
    my $count = $sth->fetchrow_array();
    $sth->finish;

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Error Message:
Couldn't execute statement: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 
+'DBI::st=HASH(0x8298e60)' at line 1;

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Thank you very much

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