Hi maikelnight!,
First when you post a question here, the ideal situation is that you provide a completely runnable example including a sample of the data. That way I can just download the code into my Perl environment, push the "go button" and replicate exactly what you are seeing. update: Basically the easier you make it for the Monks to run your code, the more likely you are to get a prompt and good response. Right now I'd have to work my brain a bit to reverse engineer some data that would produce your results. Things are much better if I don't have to do that.

Do you have use strict; use warnings;? That is important. It looks like @cleared is an AoA (Array of Array), i.e. a 2-D structure. This code: ($x =~ m/^Something Else/) won't work because $x is a reference to an array. You need $x->[someIndex]to get a string to compare against. I am surprised if what you have doesn't throw some kind of an error? Why don't you rename $x, $row_ref or something like that? $x is not very descriptive.

This does look weird: 

unless ($x =~ m/^Something Else/){
      print "~~Something Else~~", $x, "\n";
      }

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That is the same as: print ~~Something Else~~ if $x is not Something Else , which is kinda weird. 
if ($x->[someIndex] !~ m/^Something Else/){}

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Does that help?

Enclose the output in code tags so that we can see the line breaks.

In reply to Re: Loop Array - If $var is something write values until $var is something else by Marshall
in thread Loop Array - If $var is something write values until $var is something else by maikelnight

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