Cool, I got it figured out. Its working great now. Now to make it look a bit perlyer, he he. I've been working with C and Shell progs most of my natural programming life, he he. Here is the working code:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$cnip = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
print "\n                      Look Up NPANXX Info";
print "\n                   ==============================";
print "\n                   Please enter NPANXX:_______\b\b\b\b\b\b\b 
+";
chomp($cnip=<STDIN>);
if($cnip =~ /\d{6}/){
&npa1
} else{
        print "\n                     Valid NPANXX not entered!\n";
};
sub npa1 {
@datb = `cat tech3 | grep $cnip`;
@cnip = $cnip;
#printing the info
foreach $datb (@datb){
@cnip = split (/\:/, $datb);
print "\n                ========================================\n";
print "                NPANXX   Line   Switch MSR&CUSTGP VMX";
print "
                $cnip $cnip[1]  $cnip[2]    $cnip[3] $cnip[4]    $cnip
+[5]";
print "                ========================================\n\n";
};
};
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I'll make it prettier and stuff, TEAR IT APPART PLEASE!!