Perl Select

Question

Good Morning:
I am accesing the DataBase from a Perl Script. In the Insert sentence, I want to use some pl/sql functions:
$stmt = "insert into my_table(field_1) values ( replace('$s_column_name[$i]',CHR(39),CHR(39)||CHR(39)))";
But the function replace is not executed, instead is took as part of the value to insert in field_1:
If $s_column_name[$i]='anyvaluefortest', the program try to execute:
insert into my_table(field_1) values ( replace('anyvaluefortest',CHR(39),CHR(39)||CHR(39)))"
And is generated the error:
ORA-01401: inserted value too large for column
How I can say that "replace" is a function that needs to be executed?
Thanks a lot for your help.

Answer 1

You shouldn't need to.
I have used built-in and my own functions in insert and select statements through perl without any hassles before.
There doesn't look to be anything wrong with the statement.
Just to be sure, what is the type of field_1?
Also you could try having just a single element in the array with a very short value - just to be sure that the statement is working correctly and its not a data problem you are running into.