DBI question: binding params in HAVING clauses

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:25:38PM +0000, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2006, at 13:58, David Cantrell wrote:
> > now I'm having to do ...
> >     $val = $dbh->quote($val) if($val !~/^-?\d+(\.\d+)?$/);
> > and things are beginning to look really messy.
> Why can't you just wrap the quoting up in a subroutine? It shouldn't  
> be duplicated surely?

I have done.  All that does is move the mess.  The code is still
unnecessarily complex and messy.

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David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic