my @lines = ; my $line; foreach $line ( @lines ) { chomp($line); #prepare and execute SQL statement $sqlstatement="SELECT Table1.Name, Table1.Address, Table1.City, Table1.State, Table1.ZIP, Table1.Phone FROM Table1 WHERE Table1.BusType = ".$dbh->quote($line); $sth = $dbh->prepare($sqlstatement); }