pardon my clumsy code...this is my first script with perl, and i've only got 1 programming class like 3 year ago...so hehe i kindna suck at it...... but i'm really lost in how to push the data i got from the text file into the database.....can u direct me to a link where i can read up on it? also when u said unnecessary for loop, wat would be a better way of doing it? C-style is the only way i have been expose to. OR how else can i do the if-else statement to make it more efficient?