Thank you sir
The array is a structure in your program. Other than what you explictly see in the code, it has no connection to the statement handle or the database. Finishing the statement handle does not affect what is in the array. The database has no idea what you did with its data.that was the answer to my question, it turns out that my problem may actually be the following. I was running the code and receiving no output, which is why I was wondering what happened to the array.
The output statement is
print(BLOBLIST "$blobpath\\n");
which doesnt appear to write anything but
print BLOBLIST "$blobpath\\n"; does output to the file.
thanx,
bill