I second this - placeholders is definitely the way to go. Get used to using them - not only will you not have to worry about proper quoting any more, but in some situations you'll get big performance gains. There's really no reason not to use placeholders, and many reasons *to* use them.

You may already by doing this, but since I can't see any in your submitted code, I'll just add that you should be error checking your DBI statements. I typically use "RaiseError" with "eval" - proper error checking is described very nicely in the DBI perldocs. 
    perldoc DBI

[download]
at a command prompt.

HTH.

In reply to Re: Re: Quote mark in string messing up mySQL INSERT by hmerrill
in thread Quote mark in string messing up mySQL INSERT by heezy

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.