Thanks both of you for the quick replies.

The code for updating the database is shown below, jlongino: thanks for the pointer, I'm not much of an admin and it all looks to be set up the same. I'll keep on it though.

%hash: $ColName => $Value
The subroutine below is called with $page_url to tell it where to apply the update. The hash is global.

sub update_database {
    my($page_url)=@_;
    my(@categorys);
    my($category);
    my($dbfield);

    @categorys = keys(%hash);
    foreach $category (@categorys)
    {
        # Key is prefixed to match database
        $dbfield="Prefix".$category;
        # Establish database connection with MySQL
        my $dsn = 'DBI:mysql:*database*:localhost';
        my $db_user_name = '*username*';
        my $db_password = '*password*';
        my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $db_user_name, $db_password);
        my $sth = $dbh->prepare(qq{
            update table set $dbfield = '$hash{$category}' where pageu
+rl = '$page_url'
        });
        $sth->execute();
        $sth->finish();
    }
}

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In reply to Re^3: Peculiar Behaviour with DBI and MySQL by ChrisJ-UK
in thread Peculiar Behaviour with DBI and MySQL by Anonymous Monk

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