Why does the following code process the same file in an infinite loop? I want it to stop processing the file after a single iteration.

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use WWW::Mechanize ; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(); my $txt_url ; my $pdf_url ; my $html_url ; my $output ; my @output ; my $file_content = "D:/Perl/Perl output/garbage_content.csv" ; my $get_file = "http://securities.stanford.edu/filings-case.html?id=10 +1092"; my $filename = "file_output_101092" ; my $response = $mech->get($get_file, ':content_file'=> $file_content,); open my $fh, '<', $file_content ; while (<$fh>) { chomp; my $i =1 ; if(index($_,".txt")>=0) { $txt_url = $_ ; }else { if(index($_,".pdf")>=0) { $pdf_url = $_ ; }else { if(index($_,".html")>=0) { $html_url = $_ ; } } } if (($txt_url)|($pdf_url)|($html_url)) { $output = join ",", $filename, $txt_url, $pdf_url, $html_url ; push @output, ($output) ; foreach (@output) { print "Round $i\n " ; print "$_\n" ; $i++ ; #sleep(1) ; } } } close $fh ;

In reply to Why does this code continue to loop? by rachard11

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