-----Original Message-----
>From: Beginner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Oct 31, 2007 9:20 PM
>To: beginners@perl.org, beginners@perl.org
>Subject: impatient DBI query
>
>Hi,
>
>I have ordered my Perl DBI book (is that a leopard?) but I am
>impatient and want to know how I could do a select/like statement a
>bit like this:
>
>SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE foo like 'baz%'
>
>the % being the wildcard operator.
>
try something like this:
my $dbh = DBI->connect(...);
my $str = 'select foo from bar where foo like ?';
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($str);
$sth->execute('baz%') or die $dbh->errstr;
my @results = $sth->fetchrow_array;
$sth->finish;
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