I swear this was working on another 'puter ... so I just made sure I updated DBD::CSV and SQL::Statement (both were already up to date according to 'cpan -i $module'). Perhaps someone can tell me where I'm going wrong. Here's what I have as a pared down example (which was originally in a Template Toolkit plugin). First, the data, which I put in a file called "mytable":

SORTORDER,POSITION,NAME,EMAIL
1,"First Position","Tanktalus","tanktalus -at- gmail.com"
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Second, the code:

use DBI;
use SQL::Statement;
use DBD::CSV;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $dbh;
my $csv_dir = '.';
sub _dbh {
    $dbh ||= DBI->connect(qq{DBI:CSV:f_dir=$csv_dir;csv_eol=\n}, undef
+, undef, {RaiseError => 1});
    $dbh;
}

sub getme
{
    #_dbh->{TraceLevel}=10;
    my $f = _dbh->selectall_arrayref(qq{select name from mytable where
+ position = ?}, {}, 'First Position');
    $f = $f->[0] while ref $f;
    $f;
}

sub getme2
{
    #_dbh->{TraceLevel}=10;
    my $f = _dbh->selectall_arrayref(qq{select name from mytable where
+ sortorder = ?}, {}, 1);
    $f = $f->[0] while ref $f;
    $f;
}

print "SQL::Statement's version: ", $SQL::Statement::VERSION, $/;
print "DBD::CSV's version: ", $DBD::CSV::VERSION, $/;
print getme,$/;
print getme2,$/;
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Next, the output:

$ perl ./q.pl
SQL::Statement's version: 1.15
DBD::CSV's version: 0.22
Use of uninitialized value in print at ./q.pl line 32.

Tanktalus
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And, finally, the expected output:

$ perl ./q.pl
SQL::Statement's version: 1.15
DBD::CSV's version: 0.22
Tanktalus
Tanktalus
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So, selecting by comparing against the sort order (number) is working fine to pull out a string. But selecting against a string seems to be failing. I've tried a few variations without any luck - using "like ?" and 'F%', not using placeholders, etc. Since getme2 works, I have to assume that I'm at least calling stuff mostly correctly - it can find the CSV file, for example.

As you can tell, I've even tried the tracing, but I can't read a lick of it, so it didn't help me.

Thanks,

Update: Nevermind. I suppose "POSITION" is a keyword that has been (relatively) recently added to SQL::Statement's repertoire or something. Because it's not being parsed as a column header, but as something else. Changing it to "posit" works fine. The one thing I hadn't varied ...

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