You used = not eq which is what you want checking for string equality (had you wanted numeric equality it'd still be == instead). If you'd used the warnings pragma like is recommended you'd have gotten a message to this effect. 

Found = in conditional, should be == at foo.pl line 9.

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Edit: I missed the other problem which is that you're iterating over <> which will read from stdin (which is why it's just sitting there waiting for you to type at it); to read from the file you opened you should use the name of the filehandle <FD>. Again warnings would have griped that you hadn't used FD.

And another thing: Your last line should also use the name of the filehandle to let perl know what you want to close:

close( FD ) or warn qq{Problem closing FH: $!\n};

And again: Get in the habit of using $! in your error messages. You're checking that the open failed but your text is lacking. Including both the path you're trying to operate on as well as $! to indicate WHAT went wrong will save yourself headaches down the road.

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In reply to Re: next unless not working by Fletch
in thread next unless not working by anitaord

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