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coldfingertips has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am getting a mysql error near values(. Can anyone see why?

$dbh->do("INSERT INTO storage (url, altavista, yahoo, msn, teoma, go +ogle, alltheweb,Total, lastsearch, totalsearch) values($url, $altavis +ta_results, $yahoo_results, $msn_results, $teoma_results, $google_res +ults, $alltheweb_results, $total,$time, $total)") unless $dbh->do(UPD +ATE storage SET (url = "$url", altavista = "$altavista_results", yaho +o = "$yahoo_results", msn = "$msn_results", teoma = "$teoma_results", + google = "$google_results", alltheweb = "$alltheweb_results", total += total +1, time="$time") > 0;
It was suggested that I use placeholders, and I normally do but I'm not sure how to apply them to a $dbh->do. I usually use three lines to insert mysql data, not one.

Originally there were quotes around all variables in the values() but I took them out thinking they were the problem.