#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use DBI; #step1 - create connection object my $dsn = 'DBI:mysql:khalid'; my $user = 'adam'; my $password = 'secret'; my $conn = DBI->connect($dsn,$user,$password) || die "Error connecting" . DBI->errstr; open HAN, "It" || die "No file"; my @newrecords = ; foreach (@newrecords) { my @col = split; my $first_name = $col[0]; my $last_name = $col[1]; my $job = $col[2]; #step2 - insert/update/delete queries. $conn->do("INSERT INTO khalid(first_name,last_name,job)VALUES('$first_name','$last_name','$job')") || die "Error preparing query" . $conn->errstr; }