Yeah, sorry. I'm lost on this. I'm definitely not the expert. I did leave out this line in the previous example

$pointer2 = $sth2->fetchrow_hashref;
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I may be totally off on this and I'm just going in circles..lliterally. I'm simply trying to check the bademails table and get all those emails in a list, then for each email check the alerts table (which has an email field with several emails separated by ~~~). If one is found, I want to take it out and replace it. Can't seem to accomplish that. Thanks for any help you can give me.