Insert using placeholders....

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I'm using placeholders like this: (using Perl)

   $stmt .= "," if $stmt;
   $stmt .= $f->{t_name} . " = ?";
   my $temp_value_holder = $f->{value};
   $temp_value_holder =~ s/\,/\;/g;
   push (@placeholder, $temp_value_holder);

The reason I'm using a temp value then switching the commas with ; is because the 
syntax for the placeholders
is using commas. the strings might contain commas, which throws the whole thing off.

Is there a way to LEAVE the commas? Does MySQL recognize escapes if I where to switch 
the commas with
an Escaped comma? or is there another way to do it?

Thanks,
Richard