...all i need it to say is Car Record Not Found once not multiple times...

You have the following:

...

foreach my $carroadnameverify2 (@lines) {
    if ( $carroadnameverify2 =~ /$carroadnameverify/ ) {
        my $format = "           %-13s %-15s %-12s %0s";
        printf( "$format", split /\:/, "$carroadnameverify2" );
    }
    else {
        printf("CAR RECORD NOT FOUND");
    }

}    # END FILE LOOP

...

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Indeed, if you have 10 non-matches within the foreach loop, "CAR RECORD NOT FOUND" will be printed 10 times. It seems, however, that you may be looking for something like the following:

...

my $found = 0;

foreach my $carroadnameverify2 (@lines) {
    if ( $carroadnameverify2 =~ /$carroadnameverify/ ) {
        my $format = "           %-13s %-15s %-12s %0s";
        printf( "$format", split /\:/, "$carroadnameverify2" );
        $found = 1;
    }

}    # END FILE LOOP

printf("CAR RECORD NOT FOUND") if !$found;

...

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This just uses $found as a flag; if it's not set (i.e., if the item wasn't found in the array), the "CAR RECORD NOT FOUND" message is printed only once.

In reply to Re^5: Output Repeats in the elsif statement by Kenosis
in thread Output Repeats in the elsif statement by PilotinControl

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