The problem, if I understand your code correctly, is that you should move your last initialization of $i inside the foreach loop: 
my $i = 0;

  foreach my $PER_item (@major_PER_Data)
    {
    foreach my $PER_subitem (@{$PER_item})
       {
       $PER_Item[$i] = $PER_subitem;
       $i++
       }

    $PER_Entity[$Num_OF_PER]           = $PER_Item[0];
    $PER_Customer_ID[$Num_OF_PER]      = $PER_Item[1];
    $PER_SSN[$Num_OF_PER]              = $PER_Item[2];
    $PER_Relationship[$Num_OF_PER]     = $PER_Item[3];
    
    
    print "$PER_Entity[$Num_OF_PER]       \n";
    print "$PER_Customer_ID[$Num_OF_PER]  \n";
    print "$PER_SSN[$Num_OF_PER]          \n";
    print "$PER_Relationship[$Num_OF_PER] \n";
    
    $Num_OF_PER++;
    }

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Should be: 
foreach my $PER_item (@major_PER_Data) {
   my $i = 0;
   foreach my $PER_subitem (@{$PER_item}) {
      $PER_Item[$i] = $PER_subitem;
      $i++
   }
   $PER_Entity[$Num_OF_PER]           = $PER_Item[0];
   $PER_Customer_ID[$Num_OF_PER]      = $PER_Item[1];
   $PER_SSN[$Num_OF_PER]              = $PER_Item[2];
   $PER_Relationship[$Num_OF_PER]     = $PER_Item[3];

   print "$PER_Entity[$Num_OF_PER]       \n";
   print "$PER_Customer_ID[$Num_OF_PER]  \n";
   print "$PER_SSN[$Num_OF_PER]          \n";
   print "$PER_Relationship[$Num_OF_PER] \n";
   
   $Num_OF_PER++;
}

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As for the DBI question, that is not my forte. Perhaps someone else can help on that issue.

--Jim

In reply to Re: Table building confusion Help Wanted by jlongino
in thread Table building confusion Help Wanted by NodeReaper

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