Sorry I didn't include the db example: 
ID|Category|Name|Image|Description|Price|Taxable|thumb|Listing

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Currently, the first part of the script, shown below, only looks for the first field in the database, or in this case the "ID" field. I want it instead to use the Listing field. 
open DATA,$data;

$line=<DATA>;
@fields=split('\|',substr($line,0,index($line,";")));

%data=();
while (<DATA>) {
  my(@flds)=@fields;  shift(@flds);
  my(@temp)=split('\|',substr($_,0,index($_,";")));
  my($id)=shift(@temp);

  while ($#flds>-1) {
    if ($temp[0] eq "no") {
      $temp[0]="";
    }

    $data{$id}{shift(@flds)}=shift(@temp);
  }
}
close DATA;

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Thanks

In reply to Re: Re: Database question: pulling a particular field from a flat database by koacamper
in thread Database question: pulling a particular field from a flat database by koacamper

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