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++ I obviously don't work directly with the DB enough either, but your example and reference give me a more exhaustive list of chars, etc. to untaint. That may do just the trick for now (though ikegami's comment convinces me that using the DBI quote function is the right thing).

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Re^4: untainting or encoding for shelled sqlplus update
by tachyon-II (Chaplain) on May 15, 2008 at 22:13 UTC

    While a quick kludge may fix your problem with minimal effort using the bulk loader functionality that comes bundled with oracle makes better sense (speed and correct quoting) than using DBI to me.

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      There's no bulk in this case; it's one record at a time. Does that change your answer or is there some clever design you're thinking of (I love cleverness)?

      #my sig used to say 'I humbly seek wisdom. '. Now it says:
      use strict;
      use warnings;
      I humbly seek wisdom.
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        By one record I assume you mean one row in a database table (or several tables)? A bulk loader will load one row just as well as 1,000,000. You are already shelling out, why not shell out to a better tool.

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