[ic] sql queries inside perl tag

[Brian Kosick <briank@nacs.net>]

Hello all,
	I'm having problems with some code inside of a perl tag.  Unfortunatley, I 
have a products table with a column (sun) that has a list of comma 
seperated numbers  (ex  5,6,7,8)

and a sun table that has the correspondings values

1	NO Shade
2	Some Shade
3	Half shade
4	Some sun
etc etc

I realize that this is a poor db design, but it was written years ago by a 
predecessor  ;-)

Any ways this is what I'm trying to do...
I need to look up the value in products->sun  (5,6,7,8)
split the results into an array, then do a lookup for each number in the 
array and display the results

Here's my code:
[perl]
  my $suninfo = [sql]SELECT sun FROM products WHERE code = '[item-code]'[/sql];
  my $sunarray = split(/,/, $suninfo);
  my $i = 0;
  my $numelements = scalar(@sunarray);
  while ( $i < $numelements)
  {
    $textvalue = [sql]SELECT val FROM sun WHERE code = $sunarray[$i][/sql];
    print($textvalue);
    $i++;
  }

[/perl]


Here's the error log message:

207.166.192.127 v8iccWcx:207.166.192.127 - [01/August/2001:17:50:01 -0400] 
bluestone /cgi-bin/bluestone.cgi/ABDIP.html Safe: syntax error at (eval 
377) line 2, near "]SELECT sun "
 > Missing right curly or square bracket at (eval 377) line 3, within pattern
 >
 >
 >                               my $suninfo = [sql]SELECT sun FROM 
products WHERE code = 'ABDIP'[/sql];
 >                               my $sunarray = split(/,/, $suninfo);
 >                               my $i = 0;
 >                               my $numelements = scalar(@sunarray);
 >                               while ( $i < $numelements)
 >                               {
 >                                       $textvalue = [sql]SELECT val FROM 
sun WHERE code = $sunarray[$i][/sql];
 >                                       print($textvalue);
 >                                       $i++;
 >                               }

What am I missing???!!!?!?!?!?!?!
Brian Kosick
Web Programmer
New Age Consulting Service, Inc.
216-619-2000
briank@nacs.net

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