I often find myself wanting to do an SQL SELECT or UPDATE WHERE clause. I have a consistent awkward way of doing it and I'm wondering if there's something more elegant. For example, let's say I want to set SQL field Y to 0 where SQL field X matches any value in perl array ARRAY. Here's what I do now (with DBIx::Abstract): 
foreach (@ARRAY) {
   push @WHERE, { X => $_ }, "OR";
}
pop @WHERE;
$DB->update(
   { table => 'table',
     fields => { Y => 0 },
     where => \@where
   } );

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It's the "pop" step right after the foreach loop that always seems wrong. If I don't do that "pop," there will be an extra "OR" hanging off at the end. It just seems ugly, though, to be pushing something onto an array just to pop it off after the last iteration. It strikes me as such a common situation that there must be a more elegant construct. What am I missing?

In reply to Elegant way to turn array of values into SQL "where" clause by ajkessel

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