Apologies if this is a newbie question, I havent been able to find a solution online. I have a loop that iterates through an array of filenames and I would like to break out of a nested loop to the next file in @filnames. I must be overlooking a simple solution or method that I am not aware of. I added the goto statement hoping to return to the outer loop, but I found this just restarts from the beginning of the foreach which is not what I wanted. edit: I noticed the label was on the line above the foreach loop. After moving inline with the loop, it is working properly. Thanks for the help, TIA 

 
RECORD: foreach my $filenames (@filenames) {
    my $XML_infile = "C:/_OUTPUT/$filenames";
    chomp $XML_infile;
    open INDATA, "C:/_OUTPUT/$filenames" or die "INDATA: $! \n\n ";
    while  (!eof INDATA ) {
        my $line = <INDATA>;
        if ( $line =~ /\"PlateID\"/g ) {
            $outfile= ">C:/_OUTPUT/_DATA/$filenames" . $plate_id . ".t
+xt";
            if ( ($plate_id eq '' ) or ( ($FAM eq '' ) && ($VIC eq '' 
+) ) ) { 
                popup_error_window($XML_infile) ;
                
                #Jump to next file in @filenames from here
                next RECORD;
                #Duh was staring right at me.  
                    
            }
            elsif () {#pull data for PlateID} 
        }
        elsif () {#Process rest of file } 
    }
    #complete processing data
}#endforeach

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In reply to Busting out of an inner loop to next file in foreach loop by biohak

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