Hello all, I'm new to perlmonks.org and I have a question regarding MS Access. I have a program that extracts e-mail addresses from web pages and stores them in an Access database as well as a file. When the program ends, the file contains about 7 times more addresses than Access. How do I correct this? Here is the code snippet that I have so far: 
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects';

sub extractEmail
{
    my($hitPage) = @_;

    my $email;
    my $emailPresent = 0;
    my $webTitle = HTML::TokeParser->new($hitPage); 
    my $titlePage = "";
    
    my $Conn = Win32::OLE->new("ADODB.Connection");
    my $RecSet = Win32::OLE->new("ADODB.Recordset");
    my $DBTable = "Addresses";
    my $DBFile  = "g:\\PO system\\emailaddresses.mdb";
    my $DSN = "PROVIDER=MSDASQL;DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb
+)};DBQ=$DBFile";
                    
    #Opens the connection to the database
    
    $Conn->Open($DSN);
    $RecSet->Open($DBTable, $Conn,adLockOptimistic, adOpenDynamic);   
+     
    
    #The current page is searched for any <MAILTO:> tags and extracts 
+email addresses and stores them in a database and file 

while($$hitPage =~ /mailto:.*?\.(com|ca|net)/g)
{
    $email = $&;
    $email =~ s/mailto://g;
    $titlePage = $webTitle->get_trimmed_text("/title");
    print OUTFILE $email, "\t\t", $webTitle->get_trimmed_text("/title"
+);
    $RecSet->AddNew(["Email Address", "Website Title"], [$email, $titl
+ePage]);
    $emailPresent = 1;
    }
    
    $RecSet->Close();
    $Conn->Close();

    return $emailPresent;    
}

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This whole code is inside a loop. I don't think the constant opening and closing of the database is the problem (although it slows the program down), but I could be wrong. Thanks for any help!

In reply to Adding data to an access database by Raziel

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