Hi Everyone, I have a quick(hopefully) question regarding a flat database. I'm trying to figure out how to "Skip" the first entry line in the DB...the first entry line being: 
company_name|street|city_st_zip|phone|fax|website|email|category|alpha

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Here's the code that I'm using: 
$database='entries.dat';

# Check to see if there was a database specified #

if ($input{'database'} eq ''){
$db=$database;
}else{
$db=$input{'database'};
}

open (ORGDB,"<$database");
@ODB=<ORGDB>;
close (ORGDB);

#This should sort the lines by company alpha-order 
@ODB = sort(@ODB);

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

foreach $rec (@ODB){
    chomp($rec);
    ($company_name,$street,$city_st_zip,$phone,$fax,$website,$email,$c
+ategory,$alpha)=split(/\|/,$rec);
print "<tr><td valign=top width=90><font size='2'><a href='business_ad
+min_edit2.cgi?company_name=$company_name&street=$street&city_st_zip=$
+city_st_zip&phone=$phone&fax=$fax&website=$website&email=$email&categ
+ory=$category&alpha=$alpha'><img src='gfx/button_edit.gif' border=0><
+/a> </font></td>
              <td valign=top><font size='2'><B>Company</B> $company_na
+me<BR> <B>Street Address:</B> $street<BR> <B>City, St., Zip:</B> $cit
+y_st_zip<BR> <B>Phone:</B> $phone<BR> <B>FAX:</B> $fax<BR> <B>Website
+:</B> $website<BR> <B>Email:</B> $email<BR> <B>Category:</B> $categor
+y<BR> <B>Alpha Listing:</B> $alpha<BR><BR></td></tr>\n";
}

# Code to get the data from GET & POST #

sub parse_form {

   read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
   if (length($buffer) < 5) {
         $buffer = $ENV{QUERY_STRING};
    }
   @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
   foreach $pair (@pairs) {
      ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);

      $value =~ tr/+/ /;
      $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

      $input{$name} = $value;
   }
}

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Thanks for any help that you can give me guys! LisaW

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