Try to expain (in English, not in Perl) what you wanted the $_ variable to be :)
In your code you take a string from file and try to use it as array reference (???)
I am trying to read each field from the file and strip it off of the q
+uotes and comma and storing them in the DB.
one article said that I should first bind the array element ( I mean e
+ach field in the file is an element of the array)to a position in the
+ table and then it will be executed as required.
Thanks.
You need to read data from comma-separated file (so-called CSV). The best way to do it is to use the Text::CSV module. Read its documentation. Then you need to load data to DB. Do it using the DBI placeholders. Read DBI documentation again! If you don't understand the code — re-read perlintro. It must help :)
If you think you will work with Perl later — buy the Camel book.