my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:nikos_db', 'root', 'censored') or {RaiseError=>1}; #=============================================================================== my @row; my $insert = $dbh->prepare( "INSERT INTO games (gamename, gamedesc, gamecounter) VALUES (?, ?, ?)" ); my $update = $dbh->prepare( "UPDATE games SET gamedesc=? where gamename=?" ); open (FILE, "<../data/games/descriptions.txt") or die $!; while () { chomp; my ($gamename, $gamedesc) = split /\t/; $insert->execute( $gamename, $gamedesc, 0 ); if ($DBI::err) { print "Error on INSERT $gamename: $DBI::errstr\n"; $update->execute( $gamedesc, $gamename ); if($DBI::err) { print "Unable to UPDATE $gamename: $DBI::errstr\n"; } } } close (FILE);