Re: [INTERFACES] Dumb Perl-related question

On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 06:33:03PM +0000, Brendan McKenna wrote:
> 
>     What I'm doing looks like this:
> 
>    $query   = "select recipe_name, occasion, num_served, prep_time, " .
>               "freezable, instructions "                              .
>               "from recipe "                                          .
>               "where recipe_name = '$recipe';";

I'm no perl expert, but your problem sounds like the query is being
constructed without any quotes around the constant, so perl must be eat
them. Does this work?
              "where recipe_name = \'$recipe\';";

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