note mrras25 <p>Thank you for the reply </p> How exactly would I do it? Lets say I have a value of <code> while(@values = $sth->fetchrow_array) { print "$values[8]\n"; } </code> the return value of that is : /vol/enycmmcfl01b_ssd2_home_1b_a/CBirbigl$'s as you can see if I try and take that value and insert in to an insert statement to execute that through perl <code> my $insert = "insert into dbtable (vol) values ('$values[8]')"; </code> the insert statement will now fail because it will look like <code> insert into dbtable (vol) valuse ('/vol/enycmmcfl01b_ssd2_home_1b_a/CBirbigl$'s') </code> And well that wont work 1003908 1003914