Now show us a code snippet with a populated version of param and a print that generates the sort of data you want to push into the DB. Something like:

use strict; use warnings; my %param = ( fname1 => "Fred", lname1 => 'Bloggs', email1 => 'fred@xyzzy.com', fname2 => "Joe", lname2 => 'Bloggs', email2 => 'joe@plugh.com', fname3 => "Sue", lname3 => 'Brown', phone1 => '555-1234-567', ); my @entries; #generate entries from parameters print join "\n", @entries; __END__

Prints:

Bloggs,Fred,,fred@xyzzy.com Bloggs,Joe,,joe@plugh.com Brown,Sue,555-1234-567,

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In reply to Re^3: retrieving similar form params by GrandFather
in thread retrieving similar form params by Anonymous Monk

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