$dbh->do(qq/insert into "$DBTABLE" (Artist, Title, Album) values ($artist, $title, $album/) or warn "failed to insert $artist, $title, $album into table - $dbh->errstr" if ($@); #### #!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; use strict; use warnings; # Declare varaibles my $DBNAME = "Test"; my $DBTABLE = "Pandora"; my $DBUSER = "slacker"; my $DBPASS = "password"; my $DBHOST = "localhost"; my $csvfile = "/tmp/nowplayingtest.csv"; # Connect to database at hand, or die my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$DBNAME:$DBHOST", $DBUSER, $DBPASS) or die "DB connect failed: $DBI::errstr"; my $update_h = $dbh->prepare(qq{INSERT INTO $DBTABLE (Artist, Title, Album) VALUES (?, ?, ?)}); open my $ih, $csvfile or die "Can't open file, $csvfile: $!"; while (<$ih>) { chomp; my @rows = split ';'; # Is a semicolon your delimiter, or is it a comma? my $artist = $rows[0]; my $title = $rows[1]; my $album = $rows[2]; $update_h->execute($artist, $title, $album) or die $dbh->errstr; } my $res = $dbh->selectall_arrayref( q( SELECT Artist, Title, Album FROM Pandora)); foreach( @$res ) { print "\n$_->[0], $_->[1] $_->[2]\n\n"; }