Hello again, 1. The numbers in the selected (REQ_ID) are unique records - I chose 6 that exists in the database. The are the database records that have the old code that is being replaced with the new code.

The Data
OFAAAA|OFAA|
OFAAAB|OFAA|
OFAAAC|OFAA|
OFAAAD|OFAA|
OFAAAE|OFAA|
OFAAAF|OFAA|
OFAAAG|OFAA|
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The code (hopefully making more sense)

#!/usr/bin/perl                                            ### you kno
+w you can probably do this with temp tables in SQL....VVP         
### Description:  change old ccodes with new ones provided            
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### Will affect rtsdetail table - ccode field                         
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### WILL FIND ALL REQS THEN MAKE CHANGES INSTEAD OF ALL IN ONE LOOP.  
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### 2002 03 20                                                        
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use DBI;            # Load the DBI module                             
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use CGI;        # HTML                                                
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use strict;     # keep it usable                                      
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use CGI qw(:standard);                                                
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use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );                                  
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my ($sth);                                                            
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my ($ccode,@ccode);                                                   
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my(@data,$data);                                                      
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my ($p_str,@p_str);                                                   
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my $i=0;  # counter                                                   
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my ($CC,@CC);                                                         
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my ($po,@po);                                                         
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my ($old,$new);                                                       
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my (@old,@new);                                                       
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my $count;                                                            
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my $total;                                                            
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my ($head_date,@head_date);                                           
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open (CC,"ccchgtab.txt");                                             
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        while ($_=<CC>) {                                             
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        push (@CC,$_);                                                
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        ($old,$new)=split(/\|/,$_);                                   
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        push @old,$old;                                               
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        push @new,$new;                                               
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        }                                                             
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close (CC);                                                           
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$i=@old
### Attributes to pass to DBI->connect() to disable automatic         
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### error checking                                                    
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my %attr = (                                                          
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    PrintError => 1,                                                  
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    RaiseError => 1,                                                  
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);                                                                    
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### Perform the connection using the Informix driver                  
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my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:Informix:nps\@sumitt_dev","donot","showpa
+ssword"   
,\%attr )or die "Can't connect to database: ", $DBI::errstr, "\n";    
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$sth=$dbh->prepare("SELECT req_id, ccode                              
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        FROM rtsdet                                                   
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        WHERE req_id IN ('48111','15313','45813','15226','48426','7270
+3')    
        ");                                                           
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$sth->execute();                                                      
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        #print "old cc: $old \n";                                     
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        # will dump out all fields $data=$sth->dump_results();        
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        #$data=$sth->dump_results();                                  
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                while ( ($po, $ccode)  = $sth->fetchrow_array() ){    
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                #print " $po $ccode, $head_date \n";                  
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                push (@po,$po);                                       
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                push (@ccode,$ccode);                                 
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                push (@head_date,$head_date);                         
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                }                                                     
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$sth->finish;                                                         
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$sth=$dbh->prepare("UPDATE rtsdet SET ccode=? WHERE req_id=? AND ccode
+=?");                  
        foreach $po(@po) {                                            
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                for ($count=0; $count<$i;$count++) {                  
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                        $sth->execute($new[$count],$po,$old[$count]); 
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                        }                                             
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                }                                                     
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$sth->finish;                                                         
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$p_str=@po;                                                           
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print "# of POs: $p_str \n";
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Again - the problem is the changed codes do the switch - but leave a \ after it

output
OFAA\ 
|     
OFAA\ 
|     
OFAA\ 
|     
OFAA\ 
|     
OFAA\ 
|
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So the code does switch OFAAAA to OFAA - but leave a trailing /. I tried using tabs - same problem . Any ideas why? I hope I have been a bit more clear. Thanks for your time!
V
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