Hi Monks, I have two files like below. 1st file : mail.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use DBD::mysql;
use DBI;
use Utils::DBClass;
$object = new DBClass( "perltest", "localhost", 3306,"root", "sierra")
+;
$object -> select_db ("select * from samples");

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2nd file DBClass.pm in a folder named Utils. 
package DBClass;
use DBI;
@ISA = ('Exporter');
@EXPORT_OK = ("Connection_check", "new","select_db");
sub Connection_check {
my($self ) = @_;
$dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$self->{_db};host=$self->{_host};port=$self
+->{_port}";
$dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,$self->{_user},$self->{_pass});
return ($dbh)
}
sub new
{
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = {
        _db => shift,
        _host => shift,
        _port => shift,
        _user => shift,
        _pass => shift
    };
    $dbh = Connection_check($self);
    $self->{_dbh} = $dbh;
    bless $self, $class;
    return $self;
}
### Retrieving the Rows ########
sub select_db{
  my ($obj,$sel) = @_;
  my $sth1 = $dbh->prepare($sel);
  $sth1->execute or die "SQL Error: $DBI::errstr\n";
  my @row;
  while (@row = $sth1->fetchrow_array)
    {
      print "@row \n";
    }
}

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I am Getting the output for the quiries i mentioned above as below: <html> 1 Koti 555-5555 2 Siva 222-2222 3 Praneet 555-5555 4 nishitha 08649-257828 6 Anu 222-2222 7 Pradeep 555-5555 8 Asmit 222-2222 9 Surya 555-5555 </html> My requirement is getting the out put with out using the "print" statement in the select_db function. i want to get the ouput using "return" function and using "array of arrays". can anyone suggest me how to proceed .

In reply to Small Doubt Regarding Select Staement in DB by koti688

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