DBI's quote method is one of those things that you should almost never use. Instead of saying something like this:
my $name = $dbh->quote("widget");
$dbh->do("delete from products where name = $name");
It's much safer to use placeholders like this:
$dbh->do("delete from products where name = ?", $name);
In this case, your function would accept only unquoted strings, but it's a better solution in the long run.
Update Sorry, that should have been:
$dbh->do("delete from products where name = ?", undef, $name);
The do method accepts an optional hashref of
attributes as its second parameter.
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