samsonp81,
I understand what it is like to want to write code that is above my head. While the intent of Re: Refactoring a large script is not applicable to your situation, a lot of the advice inside is. The following is unfinished code that should give you some help as well. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;

# Establish connections to your respective databases
my $email_dbh;
my $email_sth;
my $names_dbh;
my $names_sth;

open(my $fh, '>', 'bad.email') or die "Unable to open 'bad.email' for 
+writing: $!";

while (my ($email) = $email_sth->fetchrow_array()) {
    my @names = guess_names($email);
    if (! @names) {
        print $fh $email, "NONE FOUND\n";
        next;
    }
    my $found;
    for my $name (@names) {
        my ($gender) = $names_sth->execute($name);
        if (defined $gender) {
            print join "\t", $email, $name, $gender;
            print "\n";
            $found = 1;
            last;
        }
    }
    if (! $found) {
        print $fh $email, (join ", ", @names), "\n";
    }
}

# After each run, check 'bad.email' to see if you can refine your patt
+erns

sub guess_names {
    my ($email) = @_;
    my @guess;

    # Strip domain from email address
    $email =~ s///;

    # See if it might be first.last, first_last, first-last
    if ($email =~ //) {
        push @guess, $1, $2;
    }

    # See if it might be first name followed by last initial
    push @guess, substr($email, 0, length($email) - 1);

    # Add more patterns here
    return @guess;
}

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Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^2: Gender Prediction by Limbic~Region
in thread Gender prediction by samsonp81

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