Alright this is killling me now. Here is my new code and thank you so much for your help. This thing can't even get passed the first COPY statement without dying, and I can't get any type of error message back other then it failed!

$dbh->func("COPY snapshot_$formName (name, value, collect_date, omp_id
+) from STDIN", "putline"
        or die "Couldn't write COPY STATEMENT to snapshot_$formName: $
+@, " . $dbh->errstr;
    print "Started a line\n";

    foreach my $values (@form_out){
      #my $cmd = `rm -f $form_out`;
      my @values = split(/;/, $values);
      my @names = split(/ /, $ga->{'outputString'}{$formName});
      my $count = 0;
      foreach my $ix (0 .. $#names ){
        my $value = $values[$ix];
        if (!$names[$count]){
         print "$value element # $count does not exist in array\n";
        }
        my $name = $names[$count];
        $value = 'NULL' if not defined $value;
        $value =~ s/^\s+//;
        $value =~ s/\s+$//;
        # The following line will remove any internal tabs which would
+ mess with
        # the column count.
        $value =~ s/\s+/ /g;
        $value = 'Null' if not length $value;
        my $row = join("\t",
                       $name,
                       $value,
                       $date,
                       $ompId);
        $dbh->func($row , 'putline' )
        or die "Couldn't write `$row' to snapshot_$formName: $@, " . $
+dbh->errstr;
         $count++;
      }
    }
    $dbh->func( "\\.\n", 'putline' );
    print "ended that line\n";
  }
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