#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Data::Dumper; use DBIx::Connect; use DBIx::Recordset; my @database = (qw(horse1 SYNDB)); my $r = '/data/tbone/maldunn2'; my %tbl; $DBIx::Recordset::Debug = 2; *DBIx::Recordset::LOG = \*STDERR; sub tbl_srch { my ($fname, $lname) = @_; for my $db (@database) { while ( my ($table, $fields) = each %tbl ) { DBIx::Recordset->Search ({ '!DataSource' => DBIx::Connect->to($db), $fields->[2] => $fname, $fields->[3] => $lname }); } } } sub load_tbls { my $database = shift; open T, "$r/$database.tblmap-names-email-address"; while ( ) { my ($table, @field) = split; $tbl{$table} = \@field; } } warn Dumper(\@database); load_tbls $_ for (@database); die Dumper(\@database); tbl_srch 'John', 'Smith';