Re: [INTERFACES] Dumb Perl-related question

From: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)wallace(dot)ece(dot)rice(dot)edu>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Dumb Perl-related question
Date: 1999-06-17 17:56:25
Message-ID: 19990617125625.A15387@wallace.ece.rice.edu
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On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 06:33:03PM +0000, Brendan McKenna wrote:
>
> What I'm doing looks like this:
>
> $query = "select recipe_name, occasion, num_served, prep_time, " .
> "freezable, instructions " .
> "from recipe " .
> "where recipe_name = '$recipe';";

I'm no perl expert, but your problem sounds like the query is being
constructed without any quotes around the constant, so perl must be eat
them. Does this work?

"where recipe_name = \'$recipe\';";

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Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005

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