Dear Monks, I'm currently working through the Perl Cookbook trying various recipes and am working on 14.6 - Viewing Data One Page at a Time. I have a database of around 25,000 lines and want to be able to limit the view so that a user can call a single word and view it from there whilst being limited to 50 results per page. The cgi script works but I fear I've gone horrifically wring on the fetching and presenting from the db part of the code

#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe

use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use CGI;

my $q=new CGI;

my %sm = $q->Vars();

my $word = $sm{concordance};


print $q->header();
print $q->start_html(-title=>'Dickens Concordance');
print qq[<form method="post"action="/cgi-bin/view.pl" name="concordanc
+e">];



#code to create the scroll down box which selects from the db
      my $db = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:lit:localhost', 'user', 'pw',
        {RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 1});
      my $sth = $db->prepare("SELECT DISTINCT word FROM dickens");
      
      
      
      $sth->execute;
      
      my @data;

      while (my @result = $sth->fetchrow_array)
      {
       push @data,$result[0];
       }
      print $q->scrolling_list(-name=>"concordance", -value=>\@data, -
+size=>30);
          
    $sth->finish;
      $db->disconnect();
      
      print $q->submit(-value=>"Choose");
  
  print qq[</form>];




#Count number of lines in db
$db = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:lit:localhost', 'user', 'pw');

my $row = $db->selectrow_arrayref('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM dickens');
my $count = $row->[0];

my $Page_Size = "50";
my $first = $q->param("start") || 1;
my $last = $first + $Page_Size - 1;
$last = $count if $last > $count;


#Query the db
my $results = $db->selectall_arrayref('SELECT word ,line FROM dickens 
+WHERE word="$concordance" LIMIT 50');


for (my $i=$first; $i<= $last; $i++) {
 my $user = $results->[$i-1];
 printf("%d <br />\n", $i, $user);
}

#Create the next and previous pages
my $prev_rec = $first - $Page_Size;
$prev_rec = 1 if $prev_rec < 1;
my $prev_link = sprintf('%s/%d', url(-full => 1), $prev_rec);
my $next_rec = $last + 1;
my $next_link = sprintf('%s/%d', url(-full => 1), $next_rec);

if ($first == 1) {
print "Previous";
} else {
printf('<a href="%s">Previous</a>', $prev_link);
}
print "|";
if ($next_rec < $count) {
printf('<a href="%s">Next</a>', $next_link);
} 
else {
print "Next";
}
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I'd be grateful for some pointers as to where I've gone wrong so that I can get the results
word line number
word line number
presented on the screen. Many thanks in advance.

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