Look at the actual strings you are sending to $dbh->do. If the user has a single-quote in a field (like dated, issuedby, etc), the SQL string will be bad. 
my $Str = "Insert into City_Policies (ID, DATE_CREATED, ISSEDBY, SUBJE
+CT) 
  values ('$policynumber', '$DATE_CR', '$ISSUEDBY', '$newsubject')";
warn $Str;
$dbh->do($Str) or print "I died";

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This may be a good reason to go ahead and build statement handles and use placeholders. DBI will handle embedded quotes for you.

BTW, may I suggest a stylistic change? ;-) 

   my $POLICY1 = "";
   my $DATE_CR = "";
   my $POLICY2 = "";
   my $POLICY3 = "";
   my $POLICY4 = "";
   my $POLICY5 = "";
   my $POLICY6 = "";
   my $ISSUEDBY = "";
   my $SUBJECT ="";
   my $PURPOSE = "";

   $POLICY1 =~s/<br>/\n/g;
   $POLICY2 =~s/<br>/\n/g;
   $POLICY3 =~s/<br>/\n/g;
   $POLICY4 =~s/<br>/\n/g;
   $POLICY5 =~s/<br>/\n/g;
   $POLICY6 =~s/<br>/\n/g;
   $POLICY1 =~s/<BR>/\n/g;
   $POLICY2 =~s/<BR>/\n/g;
   $POLICY3 =~s/<BR>/\n/g;
   $POLICY4 =~s/<BR>/\n/g;
   $POLICY5 =~s/<BR>/\n/g;
   $POLICY6 =~s/<BR>/\n/g;

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can be more succinctly written as: 
   my ($IDNUM,   $ISSUEDBY, $DATE_CR, $SUBJECT, $PURPOSE,
       $POLICY1, $POLICY2,  $POLICY3, 
       $POLICY4, $POLICY5,  $POLICY6) = $sth->fetchrow_array;

   $_ ||= '' for ($DATE_CR, $ISSUEDBY, $SUBJECT, $PURPOSE);
   $_ ||= '', s/<br>/\n/ig 
      for ($POLICY1, $POLICY2, $POLICY3, $POLICY4, $POLICY5, $POLICY6)
+;

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Far fewer lines, and you get to use the cool ||= and postfix for operators! :-)

Russ
Brainbench 'Most Valuable Professional' for Perl

In reply to Re: A seeming random error. by Russ
in thread A seeming random error. by BigJoe

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