Martin J. Evans wrote:
This is not the correct list for this question - this list is for Perl DBI
users. Try http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=beginners.
Quite possibly, but the exact question rings alarm bells.
Martin
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On 25-Jul-2006 Amar P. Singh wrote:
Hi All,
This is my first email to the group and I hope that I landed in the
correct place.
Ok now coming to the problem. Can someone explain to me that what this
script is doing. I want to know the meaning of all the lines in the
script.
$val = defined $val ? $val : "null";
$val =~ s/\'/$& x 2/eg; # double pad single
quote character '
This smells bad. This sounds like some poorly written code that is
trying to insert values into a database, and the programmer noticed that
the simple-minded approach of (e.g.)
"insert (first, last) vakues ('$first', '$last') into t"
fails when $last eq "O'Donovan" because of quoting problems. And so they
tried to dick around with doubling up quotes.
So, my suggestion to the OP is "learn about placeholders".
David
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