I am trying to get XBase to work and I used the code the came right off the xbase.html but I cant get it to work correctly. It is supposed to update a certain field when another field equals x (ie. I want to update field TEST with a value when LASTNAME equals Smith): 
use Xbase;
my $table = new XBase "live.dbf" or die Xbase->errstr;
for (0 .. $table->last_record)
    {
        my ($deleted,$lastname) = $table->get_record($_,"LASTNAME");
        die $table->errstr unless defined $deleted;
        next if $deleted;
        $table->update_record_hash($_,"TEST"=>"It works") if $LASTNAME
+ == "Smith";
        
    }

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Right now, with the code as it is..The TEST field is being updated for all records instead of only the records with LASTNAME = Smith. Many thanks for any suggestions you might. Im sure Im over looking something simple but Im just starting with Perl and I tend to miss things. Thank you, Todd

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