Hi im new to this website and fairly new to perl. here is my code first and output. 
 my @label = ( "F%", "G%" );

my $str = $dbh->prepare( "SELECT ID, NUM
                          FROM INDEX
                          WHERE ID like ?
                        );

for ( @label ) {
     $str->bind_param( 1, SQL_VARCHAR );
     $str->execute();

     my ( $label, $num );
     $str->bind_column( undef, \$label, \$num );

     while( $str->fetch() ) {
           print "$label $num\n";
     }

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here is my output: F01212 F01213 G01212 My problem is i only want the F labels if they dont exist in the G labels so in this case i would want my ouput to be F01213. Sorry if this is long winded. thanks for any help.

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