It's not the curly brackets but the double quotes - when you hit the
opening " of "apple" it matches the original " of the string. Try:
$dbh->do(q{update basket set f_order='{"apple",0}' where cap='I'});
ap
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On Thu, 9 May 2002, Vincent Stoessel wrote:
> Hello All,
> I am trying to figure out how I need to change the string below in
> order to do an insert into my table using perl dbi. perl seems to choke
> on the curly brackets. Any help would be appriciated.
> Thanks.
>
>
> $dbh->do("update basket set f_order ='{"apple",0}' where cap ='I'");
>
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