Newbie Perl dba! There is a perl program left by a previous employee which I'm trying to understand. Below are some pieces of the program. Basically it throws up a screen and asks for selected records 1-5. If 2 is picked it runs the following code. I'm trying to figure out how to pull all records back instead of just a $user_list entered. Can I use a special character for the $user_list to pull all records back that are of user_rec_type=2? If I need to post the whole program let me know. TIA User_rec_type = 2 # Build basic query for user's selected record type my $querydef = $session -> BuildQuery($rec_type); $querydef -> BuildField("id"); $querydef -> BuildField("state"); $querydef -> BuildField("owner"); my $resultset = $session -> BuildResultSet($querydef); $resultset -> Execute(); # Traverse query results, checking for user's reporting criteria, i.e. record list while (($resultset -> MoveNext()) == 1) { $id=$resultset->GetColumnValue(1); $state=$resultset->GetColumnValue(2); $owner=$resultset->GetColumnValue(3); for ($j=1; $j <= $i; $j++) { if (($list[$j] eq $id) or ($list[$j] eq $owner) or ($list[$j] eq $state)) { if ($user_rec_type eq 2) { $rec=$session->GetEntity($rec_type,$id); $head=$rec->GetFieldValue("Headline")->GetValue(); $description=$rec->GetFieldValue("Description")->GetValue(); $sev=$rec->GetFieldValue("Severity")->GetValue(); $pri=$rec->GetFieldValue("Priority")->GetValue(); $sub_date=$rec->GetFieldValue("Submit_Date")->GetValue(); $submitter=$rec->GetFieldValue("Submitter")->GetValue(); $est_staff_hours=$rec->GetFieldValue("Estimated_Staff_Hours")->GetValue(); $est_completion_date=$rec->GetFieldValue("Estimated_Completion_Date")->GetValue(); $impact_analysis=$rec->GetFieldValue("Impact_Analysis_Data")->GetValue(); $scr_cross=$rec->GetFieldValue("SCR_Cross_Ref")->GetValue(); $resolution=$rec->GetFieldValue("Resolution")->GetValue(); $notes=$rec->GetFieldValue("Notes_Log")->GetValue(); print OUT1 "\n$rec_type $id\n\n"; print OUT1 wrap("","",$head); print OUT1 "\n\n"; print OUT1 "State: $state \n"; print OUT1 "Severity: $sev\n"; print OUT1 "Priority: $pri\n"; print OUT1 "Resolution: $resolution \n"; print OUT1 "SCR Cross Ref: $scr_cross\n"; print OUT1 "Owner: $owner \n"; print OUT1 "Submit Date: $sub_date \n"; print OUT1 "Submitter: $submitter\n\n"; print OUT1 "Description: \n\n"; print OUT1 wrap("","",$description); print OUT1 "\n\n"; print OUT1 "Impact Analysis Data: \n\n"; print OUT1 wrap("","",$impact_analysis); print OUT1 "\n\n"; print OUT1 "Est. Staff Hours: $est_staff_hours\n"; print OUT1 "Est. Completion date: $est_completion_date\n\n"; print OUT1 "Notes Log: \n"; print OUT1 wrap("","",$notes); print OUT1 "\n"; print OUT1 "\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n"; } sub pad_user_list{ # Parse user's comma-separated record list & pad numbers with epme0000... $i=0; $done="F"; while ($done eq "F") { $i=$i+1; $list[$i]=$user_list; $done="T"; if (index($user_list,",") > -1) { $done="F"; $list[$i]=substr($user_list,0,index($user_list,",")); $user_list=substr($user_list,index($user_list,",")+1,1000); } if ($list[$i] =~ /[0123456789]/ ) {$list[$i]=sprintf("epme%08d",$list[$i]);} } } --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l