If you are going to address columns by name, (author, title, language, format, etc), you might want to get your database results as an array of hashes. DBI recipes is a good start here.

The little program I wrote returns all rows as an array of hashes. The text after the __END__ token shows a select * from the command line, (to show the contents of the id_minutes table).

The text after the sqlite result is the Data::Dumper output of the array of hashes. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use Data::Dumper;

# t33.pl

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=junk.lite","","",
    {PrintError => 1}) or die "Can't connect";

my $query = q{SELECT * FROM id_minutes};
my $aref = $dbh->selectall_arrayref($query, { Slice => {} });
$dbh->disconnect or die $dbh->errstr;

print Dumper $aref;



__END__

C:\Old_Data\perlp>sqlite3 junk.lite
SQLite version 3.7.3
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
sqlite> .mode column
sqlite> .width 10 10 10
sqlite> .head on
sqlite> select * from id_minutes;
id          month       minutes
----------  ----------  ----------
maclaw796   Oct         6
hturner     Oct         53
nnt         Oct         3
sqlite>


C:\Old_Data\perlp>perl t33.pl
$VAR1 = [
          {
            'month' => 'Oct',
            'minutes' => 6,
            'id' => 'maclaw796'
          },
          {
            'month' => 'Oct',
            'minutes' => 53,
            'id' => 'hturner'
          },
          {
            'month' => 'Oct',
            'minutes' => 3,
            'id' => 'nnt'
          }
        ];

C:\Old_Data\perlp>

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in thread multidimensional array's by emgi

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