Monks, I'm searching a database to find certain record. If the record matches my terms, I send an email to that user. I'm using a loop to go through all of the records. I would like to update a single variable that I will later use to log every record that was sent an email. How can I update that variable within the loop? When I run the script from the command line, I have a print line like this, that also updates the count. I stuff the count into a log after the loop is finished: 
    print "email sent to: $contact <$toemail><br>\n";
    $count++

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I'd like to also do something like: 
$log = email sent to: $contact <$toemail><br>";

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But it needs to be updated with all the emails sent, so I can make a single log entry, via separate routine, once the loop is finished. Make sense?

In reply to Updating variable in a loop by htmanning

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