Re: Var substitution in SELECT statements

on 4/23/01 9:20 PM, Randall Perry at rgp(at)systame(dot)com wrote:

> This works:
> $res = $conn->exec("select cust, contact, user_name, email from $t where
> user_name = a1a");
>
> This doesn't:
> $c = "a1a";
> $res = $conn->exec("select cust, contact, user_name, email from $t where
> user_name = $c");
>
> and returns the error:
> Attribute 'a1a' not found
>
>
> How do you do var substitution with the Pg module in Perl?

Whoops! Needed to quote the var as so (for $c above):

$c = "\'$c\'";

Works now.

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Randy Perry
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Mac Consulting/Sales