Handling Quotes
use DBI; $dbh=DBI->connect(qq(DBI:mysql:database=sample_db;user=root;password=)) or die "Can't connect"; $namestring=qq(O'C); $namestring=$dbi->quote($string); print $namestring; $sth=$dbi->prepare("SELECT * FROM Employee WHERE name=$namestring") or die "Can't prepare sql statement" . DBI->errstr; $sth->execute(); while(my @val = $sth->fetchrow_array()){ print "id=$val[0]\n"; print "name=$val[1]\n"; print "name=$val[2]\n"; print "name=$val[3]\n"; print "start_date=$val[4]\n\n"; } $sth->finish(); $dbh->disconnect();