Thanks! Here is the code in question. 
$rowCheckQuery = qq{SELECT color_id FROM color WHERE color=?};
              foreach my $color (@color){

                      # trim whitespace
                      $color =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//gm;
                      # print "Color is - ", $color, " -\n\n";

                      my $sth = $dbh->prepare($rowCheckQuery);
                      $sth->execute($color);

                      while(my $color_test = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref) 
+{
                              push @color_test, $color_test;
                      }

              }

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Also I double checked the user I am using for the script and it has global select permissions. I can select on other tables in the same db.... just very oddly not two of my tables. This might be more of a mysql issue. I'm not sure.

Thanks again.

In reply to Re^2: Can insert but not select by zoophagous
in thread Can insert but not select by zoophagous

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