bind_param for named parameters - clarification sought

Tim,

In the thread "problem with DBD::ODBC and placeholders 
[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]" on dbi-users recently you said:

 > Drivers that support named placeholders like ":N" where N is an
 > integer, could support both forms of binding: bind_param(":1",$v) and
 > execute($v)
 > It's not dis-allowed. Driver docs should clarify this issue.

Is it really your intention that to bind named parameter "fred" as in 
the SQL "insert into xxx values(:fred)" you call bind_param(":fred",$v)?

As it happens DBD::ODBC has a bug in its support of named parameters 
(other than :1, :2 etc) which means it did not work at all but it ALSO 
expects the name parameter ":fred" above to be passed to bind_param as 
"fred" i.e. the leading ':' is treated as an introducer and not part of 
the parameter name. I believe, but am prepared to be put right, other 
non-perl database drivers also drop the ':' when binding.

As it didn't work before I can change it to be either - just let me know.

Thanks.

Martin
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Martin J. Evans
Easysoft Limited
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