Hi all, after some advice. I'm opening a file and reading through it and look for some key values after the "Count:" text, but my next if's don't seem to be working properly (as they're probably not doing what I think they're doing) and instead it seems to be ignoring the next ifs and just picking up every occurrence of "Count:"

The input file

Checks: Running 'show port | match "Up    Yes" | count'
Count: 23 lines

Checks: Running 'show router interface | match "Up " | count'
Count: 4 lines
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My Code

open( INPUT, "$folder/$file" ) or die("Could not open $file file");
while ( my $line = <INPUT> ) {
next if ( $line =~ m/show port/ );
      if ( $line =~ m/Count:\s+(\d+)/ ) {
        $checks{port}{$stage} = $1;
      }
      next if ( $line =~ m/show router interface/ );
      if ( $line =~ m/Count:\s+(\d+)/ ) {
        $checks{l3}{$stage} = $1;
      }
}
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Printing out $checks{port}{$stage} shows:

23
4
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When it should only show 23 for $checks{port}{$stage} and 4 for $checks{l3}{$stage}...

And a Dumper

$VAR1 = {
          'card' => {
                      'post' => '28615',
                      'pre' => '28615'
                    },
          'l3' => {
                    'post' => '28615',
                    'pre' => '28615'
                  },
          'subs' => {
                      'post' => '2',
                      'pre' => '2'
                    },
          'bfd' => {
                     'post' => 0,
                     'pre' => 0
                   },
          'binding' => {
                         'post' => '28615',
                         'pre' => '28615'
                       },
          'ospf' => {
                      'post' => '2',
                      'pre' => '2'
                    },
          'port' => {
                      'post' => '28615',
                      'pre' => '28615'
                    },
          'ldp' => {
                     'post' => '14',
                     'pre' => '14'
                   }
        };
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Note, there's other occurrences of "Count" it's picking up but I only included two from the data source to keep things short. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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