cool.. In get_customer() your customer id is being put into $dbh. As you assign directly to $dbh you don't need it in that first line, so..

change:

sub get_customer
{
my ($dbh, $customer_id) = @_;

$dbh = WebDB::connect ();
...

to:

sub get_customer
{
my ($customer_id) = @_;

my $dbh = WebDB::connect ();
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Now you really want to keep the subs separate, so instead of calling get_customer from print_results we get_customer, then send the customer details to print results..

if ($choice eq "submit")            # customer submitted order number
{
    get_customer ();
      print_results ();
}
else
...

becomes:

if ($choice eq "submit")            # customer submitted order number
{
    my $cutomer = get_customer($customer_id);
    print_results($customer);
}
else
...
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Then we change print_results to accept the customer details as an argument

sub print_results
{
my $customer = get_customer($customer_id);
...

becomes:

sub print_results
{
my $customer = @_;
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cheers,

J

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