Hi Guys, One last question for you Perl Guru's and I'll leave you boys alone...promise :) I'm trying to figure out how to diplay the entries in a database in, say, 4 table fields instead of them being displayed vertically one. So, here's an example of what I'm trying to accomplish: 
Entry 1       Entry2    Entry 3    Entry 4
Entry 5       Entry6    Etc.

Instead of...

Entry 1
Entry 2
Entry 3

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Here's what I get to work with... 
&parse_form;
$database='categories.dat';

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

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

shift @ODB;
@ODB = sort(@ODB); 

foreach $rec (@ODB){
    chomp($rec);
    ($Category)=split(/\|/,$rec);
print "<tr><td valign=top width=65>
               <B>Category: </B>$Category<BR></td></tr>\n";
}

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 Again! Lisa

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