Hello monks!

Code first (code works great, but...): 

open(SRCFILE, $infile) or die print "Could not open $infile\n";

while($line=<SRCFILE>) {

##### prepare line data
$groupnumber=substr($line,863,9); # extract group number
$groupnumber =~ s/^\s+//; # Trim leading spaces
$groupnumber =~ s/\s+$//; # Trim trailing spaces

##### execute prepared sql statment with linedata parameter
$sth->execute($groupnumber) or die print "Unable to execute: $DBI::err
+str\n";

##### fetch recordset
if ( $resultset = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {

 #
 # groupnumber is in the database (move to the next line)
 #

} else {

 # else there was no record in the database matching this query.
 # we'll place this record into the database now.

 print localtime() . " $groupnumber being inserted into database\n";

 $dbh->do("insert into part_group(part_group) Values  ($groupnumber)")
 or die print "Could not insert $groupnumber into part)group: $DBI::er
+rstr\n";


}



}
close(SRCFILE);

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I'm checking to see if data exists in a table. If it doesn't, I'm adding it. My SRCFILE has at least 8000 records in it. Is there a faster/better way to do this? Thanks so much.

In reply to DBI - need for speed by with.a.twist

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