Hi all I'm very new to perl please bare with me. I'm trying to loop values from a database and print to a text file. The table contains many columns and I'm trying to dynamically print the values from each column without having to having hard code the column names. e.g $dat_ref2->{'num'}; for each column. I need to append each value from the column and print to a text file. any help is greatly appreciated :) 
my $eachQuery = "SELECT * FROM example ORDER BY num; ";
my $sth2 = $epm_db->Query($eachQuery);
$sth2->execute();

# get example table headings 
my @eachCols = @{$sth2->{NAME}}; # or NAME_lc if needed 

        my $EachVals = "";

        while ( my $dat_ref2 = $sth2->fetchrow_hashref("NAME_lc") )
        {    
                foreach my $val(@eachCols) {
                    #print $dat_ref2->{$_};
                    
                    if ($EachVals eq "") {
                        $EachVals = $dat_ref2->{$val};
                    }
                    else{
                        $EachVals = $EachVals."\t".$dat_ref2->{$val};
                    }                    
                }

print MYEach "$client\t$EachVals\r"; # printing values into csv output
+ file                   
        }

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