#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use DBI; my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:SQLite:dbname=mydatabase.db", "", "" )|| die "Cannot connect: DBI"; my @pages; # Create the table and make the columns my $column_creator = join(' INTEGER,', @pages) . ' INTEGER'; my $create_columns = "CREATE TABLE mytable ($column_creator)"; $dbh->do($create_columns); my $id_number = 1; my $current_column; my @splitted_string1; $current_column = $db->query("SELECT text FROM data WHERE id = '$id_number'")->list; print $current_column; @splitted_string1 = split " ", $current_column; }