in reply to using databases

http://linuxbloggers.org/create-insert-select-update-perl-script-and-postgresql-database-examples/
^ will probably be enough but a nifty thing I 'borrowed' from a site I haven't bookmarked anywhere:
############ # Update the database # @param1: the table to be updated # @param2: the hash containing the data to be inserted into the databa +se # returns 1 if succesfull ############ sub updateDB { my $table = shift; my ($hashref) = @_; my (%hash) = %$hashref; my @fields; @fields = keys %hash; my $fields = join(', ', @fields); my $values = join(', ', map { $dbh->quote($_) } @hash{@fields}); my $sql = "INSERT into $table ($fields) values ($values)"; my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql); $sth->execute(); $sth->finish(); return 1; }
You'll want the keys of the hash to be the names of the colums you want to insert

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Re^2: using databases
by Bass-Fighter (Beadle) on Jan 06, 2009 at 10:31 UTC
    ok thanks, I think this is what I was looking.