#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # don't comment this out, and don't capitalize it. use DBI; my $Strain; if ( @ARGV ) { $Strain = shift; # get your target string from the command line } else { print "Please Enter the Strain Name: "; $Strain = <>; chomp $Strain; } $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:sampledb','root','******') or die "Connection Error: $DBI::errstr\n"; $sql = <prepare($sql); $sth->execute( $Strain ) or die "SQL Error: $DBI::errstr\n"; while (@row = $sth->fetchrow_array) { print "@row\n"; }