No real offense taken!
It is to be expected in the learning curve, and I do appreciate your pointing out the articles to me.
I will (and plan to do so shortly) read and apply what I learn.
I have already used hashes, (used to write my own in C). As a matter of fact, after striping the XML file (using HTML::Parser) of what I am interested in, I load the remainder into a hash of arrays. The array portion is needed for duplicate hash keys (Description comes to mind), so the key is 'description' and the array of values are the values of all the description tags.
I find most tasks that I do in perl to be much simpler than C or C++, except when it comes to complex structures.
This is taking a lot of 'Ok, now what is wrong' time, but should be worth it.
Someone else mentioned using auto-increment on the database keys, and I will certainly so that, so long as I find it trouble free.
Back to reading and absorbing.
Thank You
Largins

In reply to Re^4: Concatenation of scaler reference by Largins
in thread Concatenation of scaler reference by Largins

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