Hello:

I'm building a program that holds data of court cases.

I'm making a search script for a user to search for a specific case.

Let's say Attorney Jim wants to search for a case that had a issue of "Allowance" and "input1" was who filed/inputted the report into MySQL database.

I've been working about 30 minutes now trying to figure out why I'm getting this error. Althought im not 100% sure that the error is coming from DBI syntax or MySQL syntax, I think its coming from MySQL Syntax. 

use DBI;

$dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:dataflex') or die "Couldn't connect to 
+database: " . DBI->errstr;

$sql = "SELECT * FROM dataflex where attorney = '$INPUT{'attorney'}' a
+nd where issue = '$INPUT{'issue'}'";
$sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or print "preparing: ",$dbh->errstr;
$sth->execute or print "executing: ", $dbh->errstr;
}

  $dbh->disconnect;

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Prints out:

executing: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'where issue = 'Allowance'' at line 1

Anyone know why it's giving me a syntax error?

Thank you,
Anthony

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