Re: problem with passing variables

[nat]

Mark,
I'm kind of new with perl, but from what I see, you're using a single
quote when defining $sql, and it should be qq for the interpolated string.
With the single quote (q) it is a literal. Hope this helps.


On Friday, December 30, 2011 11:17:30 AM Mark Haney wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the right list for this, so bear with me. If it
> isn't I'll be glad to post it on the correct one.
>
> I've got a problem with passing variables to a SQL server inside a CGI
> script. My code is like this:
>
> my $begin_time = "2011-11-16 11:00:00";
> my $end_time = "2011-11-16 12:00:00";
>
> my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:database=embdev', 'user', 'password');
>
> my $sql = q/SELECT * FROM events WHERE date BETWEEN $begin_time and
> $end_time/;
>
> my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
> $sth->execute();
>
> I'm not sure why it's not using the the variables, can someone point out
> what I'm doing wrong?
>
> -----
> Mark Haney

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