thanks runrig, I've been staring at this code and testing and trying so many different iterations that I accidentally left the

my $j=...
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I will fix the join, and these are the methods I am using

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Finance::YahooQuote;
use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;
use DBIx::Simple;
use SQL::Abstract;
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I suspect that is what you were refering to when you said the source for my @quotes.