Hi Poj, First of all thank you very very much for all your help. The problem finally got solved, I had also posted it on PERLGURU and a Guru there his name is Chris noticed a typo in our script, I was calling a wrong hash key at:

<input type="hidden" name="empid" value="$hr->{'empid'}"/>
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When I changed it to EmployeeID it worked. Thanks once again for your kind help. I have already voted you on this thread and other one. Rgds Terry