Hello masters of knowledge, I have another (probably goofy) question..... I have the following code- 
#!C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe
use DBI;
use Tie::File;
$dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:Database','username','password')
or die "Connection Error: $DBI::errstr\n";
$sql = "select cost, data from table";
$sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute
or die "SQL Error: $DBI::errstr\n";
$sitedata="/xampp/cgi-bin/Smartware_LTD_Website/aberKarateCosts.html";
open(DAT,">>$sitedata") || die("Cannot Open File");
print DAT"<div id='costtable'>";
print DAT"<table border='1'>";
print DAT"<tr><th>$sth->{NAME}->[0]</th><th>$sth->{NAME}->[1]</th></tr
+>";
while (@row = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
print DAT"<tr><td>$row[0]</td><td>$row[1]</td></tr>";
}
print DAT"</div>";
close FILE;

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The above code opens a file and then writes the table result in html into that file. The file is a html file; therefore solving a previous question which i posted on here about mixing perl with html (for my needs anyway)! The problem I am having is that I only want this table to occur once, but when I run the perl more than once the table appears twice, three times etc. I have tried multiple lines to try and fix this. I want the table to up-date however when new data is added to the database, but each time an up-date occurs the original html table should be removed. please help, I think its just a line or two of code, i just cant crack the egg! Bogglemaster89

In reply to Perl to add a table once and then when run again delete the original table (but not the whole html document)! by bogglemaster89

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