I have made progress from yesterday. I can now read a file in to a database. I am using an IIS log as an example. However, when the log file has fields with values of '0' or ' 0 ', perl reads this as being at the end of the file and stops. By changing all occurences of 0 to an O, will allow the script to complete properly.

if ($UserFile) {
    print start_html();
    # reads the log file and creates a SQL string. The string holds th
+e data to create each column 
    # in the table...

# This part reads one line of the file and creats a column in a table 
+for each space-separated item.
    CreateTable();
    $dbh = open_dbi();

    my $sth = $dbh->prepare("CREATE TABLE $TableName ($SQLString)") or
+ err_trap("Cannot prepare the load_category_names query");
    $sth->execute or err_trap("Cannot execute the SQL query to CREATE 
+TABLE");

    open IN, "$UserFile";
    $z = 0;
    $B = "\'";
    Delimiter();

# I believe this is the problem, but not sure how to fix...
    while (<IN>) {
        $TheRec = $_;    
        @NewItem = ();
        $SQLString = "\'";
        $z = 0;
        chomp $TheRec;
        
        @NewItem = split(/$FileDelimiter/, $TheRec);        #split the
+ line in records by space
        while ($NewItem[$z]) {
            $SQLString = $SQLString . $NewItem[$z] . "\',\'";
            $z=$z + 1;
        }
        # removes the trailing comma from the end of the line
        $LineLength = length($SQLString);
        $LineLength = $LineLength -2;
        $SQLString = substr($SQLString,0,$LineLength);
         my $sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO $TableName VALUES($SQLSt
+ring)") or err_trap("Cannot prepare the load_category_names query");
        $sth->execute or err_trap("Cannot execute the SQL query to LOA
+D DATA INFILE");
    }
    close_dbi($dbh);
}


# In this section, I had the same problem, but I added if ($NewItem[$C
+olumnNumber] eq 0) {$NewItem[$ColumnNumber] = O}; and the problem was
+ resolved--all required columns were created...

sub CreateTable {
        $zzz=1;
        @NewItem = ();
        open LOGFILE, "$UserFile" or die "Cannot open file $UserFile";
        Delimiter();
        while (<LOGFILE>) {
            $TheRec = $_;
            chomp($TheRec);
        }
        $A =();
        @NewItem = split(/$FileDelimiter/, $TheRec);        #split the
+ line in records by space

        # sql code for each column is formed here
        $ColumnNumber=0;
        if ($NewItem[$ColumnNumber] eq 0) {$NewItem[$ColumnNumber] = O
+};
        while ($NewItem[$ColumnNumber]) {
            $SQLString = $SQLString . "$ColumnName[$ColumnNumber] CHAR
+(255),";
            $ColumnNumber = $ColumnNumber +1;
        }
        # removes the trailing comma from the end of the line
        $LineLength = length($SQLString);
        $LineLength = $LineLength -1;
        $SQLString = substr($SQLString,0,$LineLength);
}
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Please help--thanks...

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