Kinda close (and that example you gave would throw a bunch of syntax errors, but I'm going to assume you know how to use the DBI; if you don't, read the doc and many tutorials here on this site).

Here's how I would do it:

my $dbh = DBI->connect( ... ); # fill in the arguments you need

my $sth = $dbh->prepare(<<'SQL');
    INSERT INTO ads
      (lname,fname,item,price,street,city,state,zip)
    VALUES
      (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)
SQL

while (my $line = <SOME_FILEHANDLE>) {
    # ... parse $line to get data in @array... you've done this
    # assuming @array contains 8 values, this inserts the data
    $sth->execute(@array);
}

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You'd want to check for errors on the insert though if you don't have RaiseError or an error handler in place.

In reply to Re: DBI and Inserting an Array by The Mad Hatter
in thread DBI and Inserting an Array by carric

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