Thank you for the help. The issue was definitely not haveing <INDB> in the seek function. I saw that other PerlMongers caught this as well. I will definitely look at your version of code(as well as other Monger code and compare this with my version. But all am trying to do is search a number of values against a database and display the matches. The code I wrote for this worked well after the correction. The hash will not work for me as my database will contain more than one key value pair.Again thank you for your input. Ostra