# The first SQL query to get the state value<br>

my $citydata = $dbh->exec_select( "select city,state from mytable where city  = ?", $city );

 # This one gets me all the values found for state 
my $statedata = join ' OR ', map { "state = $_->{ state}" } @$citydata;
# Now $statedate gets this:  “state = NH OR state = NY”.

# I would like to add place holders and pass these values into the second query
# To read like “state = ? OR state ?”

  my $codedata = $dbh->exec_select( "select code from othertable where (year=2014 and ($statedata)), $citydata->{state},$citydata->{state}    );