Okay... first, especially if you're new at anything, comments are your friend. Spell out in detail what you expect to start with, what you expect to end with, and how you expect to get there. You'll help yourself figure it out, and others. Anyway, am I correct in thinking that this is the collection of data you're needing to move around? 
my %incoming = &read_input;    # Read information into associated
                # array %incoming.
my $qty = $incoming{'qty'}; # Fetch the text from the array.
my $type = $incoming{'type'}; # Fetch the text from the array.
my $equip = $incoming{'equip'}; # Fetch the text from the array.
my $dept = $incoming{'dept'}; # Fetch the text from the array.
my $fstore = $incoming{'fstore'}; # Fetch the text from the array.
my $dreceived = $incoming{'dreceived'}; # Fetch the text from the arra
+y.
my $rstore = $incoming{'rstore'}; # Fetch the text from the array.
my $ringstore = $incoming{'ringstore'}; # Fetch the text from the arra
+y.
my $dated = $incoming{'dated'}; # Fetch the text from the array.
my $comment = $incoming{'comment'}; # Fetch the text from the array.
my $id = $incoming{'id'}; # Fetch the text from the array.
my $action = $incoming{'action'}; # Fetch the text from the array.

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If that's the case, you might consider storing the information as a hash... 
my %data;

$data{'qty'} = $incoming{'qty'};
$data{'type'} = $incoming{'type'};
# etc...

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And then after you've populated your hash, add it to a list... 
my @hashes;

push @hashes, $data;

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And then you can just access the members of the list sequentially when you need to update the database. Or am I missing something in your code?

In reply to Re^2: Passing a lot of form values by starX
in thread Passing a lot of form values by Trihedralguy

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