note ptum <p>It sounds like others have already pointed you to some good resources for derefencing, etc., but there are two things which are conspicuous in their absence from your code:</p> <ul><li>You don't check if the fetchall_arrayref was successful, in terms of displaying $DBI::errstr.</li> <li>You don't check if the array reference is really an array reference.</li> </ul> <p> I usually do something like this:</p> <code> my $ary_ref = $sth->fetchall_arrayref(); if ($DBI::errstr) { print "Error detected: $DBI::errstr\n"; return; } else { if (ref($ary_ref) eq 'ARRAY') { # go on to process the array reference. } else { # do something with Data::Dumper } } </code> 596638 596638