Thank you for your help! I guess that I was not using the undef correctly? Now, when the filed in the array is blank "00:00:00" is put into the array. My code now works and looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use DBI; my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:ODBC:PERL', {AutoCommit => 1},) or die "Couldn't connect to database: " . DBI->errstr; $log = print "Enter FS log name> "; chomp($log); open($LogDate, ">>LogDate.txt"); while ($log = <>) { open(DATA,$log); @file = <DATA>; close(DATA); foreach $line (@file) { $line =~ s/"//g; @day = split(/ /,$line); $func = shift @day; if ($func =~ /^Initiated|^Execution/) { if ($day[2] =~/on/) { chomp($log); print "\n$log,$day[3],$day[1],"; print $LogDate "\n$log,$day[3],$day[1],"; } if ($day[2] =~ /terminated/) { print "$day[5]"; print $LogDate "$day[5]"; } } } close($LogDate); open(DATA,"LogDate.txt"); @file = <DATA>; close(DATA); foreach $line (@file) { chomp($line); @array = split(/,/,$line); ########## This is where the problem was ########## if (length $array[3]) { # do nothing } else { $array[3] = '00:00:00'; } ################################################## $dbh->do("INSERT INTO tblLogDate (Log,Dte,Start,Stop)values('$ +array[0]','$array[1]','$array[2]','$array[3]')"); } $dbh->disconnect; exit }

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