My script errors out when I try to use a regex in the following statement. Can someone show me the proper way to go about doing this?

Also, I'm used to selecting a number of rows from a mysql database and running over it with sth->fetch and bind_column. Is there a way I can set a variable to a one-column select? Ie. my $name = qq(select name from db where id="1");

My current problem is 

   my $data = qq(SELECT catname, path FROM categories WHERE path =~ m/
+^$path/ && path != "$path");
   my $sth = $dbh->prepare($data);
   $sth->execute() or die $dbh->errstr;

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In reply to how to use regexes in SELECT statement by coldfingertips

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