use Net::IP; my @sn_array = qw( 172.22.0.0/30 7.3.1.0/24 ); ... for my $net (map {new Net::IP $_} @sn_array) { do { $manager->start and next; my $p = Net::Ping->new("icmp"); my $host = $net->ip; print "pinging $host\n"; if ($p->ping($host)){ open PingFile, ">>", "$pingable" or die $!; flock(PingFile, LOCK_EX); print PingFile "$host\n"; flock(PingFile, LOCK_UN); close(PingFile); } $manager->finish; } while (++$net); }