Hi monks, I am trying to learn simple database programming but am getting stuck. All I want to do is print to screen all the table names in the database when the user presses the submit button. I thought this code would work; 
print $cgi->h4 ("Use the web browser to select tables to view!");
print $cgi->start_form (-method => "POST");
print $cgi->submit (-name => "submit", -value => "Browse");
print $cgi->end_form ();

print $cgi->end_html ();

$dbh->disconnect ();


 $sth = $dbh->prepare (qq{
                            SHOW TABLES;
                            });
         
 $sth->execute ();
       

while (my @ary = $sth->fetchrow_array ())     {


   print join ("\t", @ary), "\n";

}

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WOuld anyone be able to suggest how I can modify my code to do this?? Thanks ;-)

In reply to my first database by Anonymous Monk

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