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

I'm using placeholders (in DBI/MySQL) on a set of INSERT statements;
however, when I try to fill a "?" placeholder with the value of NOW(), I just get the plain string "NOW()" in my data. Is there any way to tell the DBI/MySQL that the NOW() is supposed to be a current time function and not a plain string?

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