Hi all, I am struggling to write a program in which i have to read 2 cloumns of a table in MySql and then have to put the values of the 2 columns in 2 respective arrays. The tables looks like: 
Column1      Column2
apple        banana;
cat          dog;
elephant     flag;
dog          home
banane       kite
 and so on....

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i want to store apple, cat , elephant,dog, banane in one array say as @array1 and banana, dog, flag, home, kite in another array as @array2. Then I have to compare each element of array2 with array1 element. If they are equal, then have to store in a row. I want my output as 
Column1      Column2       Column3
apple        banana        kite
cat          dog           home
elephant     flag
 and so on....

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my code looks like.. 
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO Test3 values (?,?)");
my $order1 = $dbh->prepare("SELECT Column1 FROM Test3 ORDER BY Column1
+");
$sth->execute($words[0],$words[1]) or die $DBI::errstr;
            $order1->execute();
while(@row = $sth->fetchrow_array())
{
print qw($row[0]\n$row[1]\n$row[2]\n);}

$sth->finish();
$order1->finish();

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Also, how can I split a table(Table T1) having two columns(Column1 and Column2) into two table(T2 and T3) having one column each. i.e. T2 has Column1 and T3 has Column2. But am unable to get the desired output. Many thanks in advance..

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