I don't know why it is when I try to INSERT a piece of text with a '?' in it, it ends up turning to 'NULL' in the DB. I'm not even sure if it's a Perl or MySQL database. I have, however, isolated the problem to a single function:

sub Do_SQL{
    my ( $command )=@_;
    
    my $sth;
    eval{
        $sth = $dbh->prepare($command);
    };

    # Check for errors.
    if ($@){
       $dbh->disconnect;
       print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
       print "An ERROR occurred! $@\n";
       exit;
    }
    else {
       $sth->execute;
    }
    
    return $sth;
}

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For example sakes, I'll say that $command is something like:
INSERT INTO some_tbl (some_text) VALUES("Hello?")

What ends up in the DB (for the value some_text) is "HelloNULL". If I were to enter the exact same line manually into the DB, then it would work fine, and the question make would remain unchanged. I know the problem must be somewhere in that function, but I have no clue what it is.
Could someone please help me?


Also, is there some way the question mark is used as syntax in Perl? I apparently missed that info if it is true.

- Monolith

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