#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @xpid = ("ahuman","alienh","pmonk"); my $sql = makeSql(\@xpid); warn "$sql\n"; sub makeSql { my @xpid = shift; my $return; my $i = 0; foreach my $item (@xpid) { $return .= $xpid[$i]; $i++; } return $return; }