Firstly, use strict. Use warnings. It's possible that your error could be related to that. (The other posters do have very good points, too.)

Secondly, your logic seems to be a little sketchy. You're doing the operations on @LOOP several times, once for each file. But, you never reset @LOOP. It's not a pattern-matching problem, but a logic issue. Instead, consider:

foreach my $record (@BLIST) { open(BAN, $record) or &Error($!); my @BAN = <BAN>; close BAN; my @tempLOOP = @LOOP; foreach my $line (@tempLOOP) { $line =~ s/FNAME/$record/; $line =~ s/BANNER/@BAN/; print $line; } }

In addition, I would highly reccomend using the HTML templating modules that have already been written, vs. rolling your own. (That is what you're doing, right?)

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In reply to Re: Loops and Pattern Matching by dragonchild
in thread Loops and Pattern Matching by wanderingM

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