I am trying to figure out how to loop an entry from a flat database to be used in a drop-down selection. So, if my database looks something like this: 
company1|www.company1.com|absolute_path1
company2|www.company2.com|absolute_path2
company3|www.company3.com|absolute_path3
etc...

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I only want the "company" pulled from the database and listed in the drop-down. Here's what I've done so far: 
#!perl
use strict;
use CGI;
$|=1;

my $db="g:/Scripts/Indigo/cgi-bin/company.db";
my $query=new CGI;
my $g_debug=0;
my $path='g:/Scripts/Indigo/cgi-bin/';

my $rc=0;
my ($u,$p);
my $userid=$query->param('userid');
my $url=$query->param('url');

# open the text database
    unless(open(PFD,$db))
    {
        &printError("Could not open user database");
        return;
    }
    
# first check if user exist
    $path='';
    while (<PFD>)
    {
        chomp;
        ($u,$p,$path)=split('\|',$_);###$u loop?? how?
        if ($userid eq $u)
        {
            $rc=1;
            last;

        }
    }
    close(PFD);


  print $query->popup_menu(-name=>'userid',
                            -values=>[$u]);## $u needs loop to pull al
+l company entries from $db

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Thank you all for any help that you can give me.

In reply to Drop Down Selection #2 by koacamper

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