$query=qq{SELECT ....}; $queryhandle=$connect->prepare($query); $queryhandle->execute(); while(my $blog=$queryhandle->fetchrow_hashref()){ HTML::Entities:encode($blog->{blog_post}); for(split/ /, $blog->{blog_post}){ print "$_" and next if $_=~m/^http/; } print "$_"; } print "
"; ...