Eh? You want to make your anchor display the text of $fields[0], rather than displaying a gif?

print "<a href=whatever>$field[0]</a>";

Although, in general, you ought to have a look at using some module (CGI being the usual one) to handle this, as you'll be in trouble if $field[0] happens to contain any HTML specific characters (such as <). From your description of your data, you'll be ok in this case, but use CGI; is a good habit to get into.

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