I know this is something simple I am missing, but I cant seem to get it to work. Reads in a text file paipe delimited and returns a match if the id's match. But it ony seems to be reading in the first line not the other lines as well 
sub get_schoolname( $ )
{
   my $id = $_[0];
   my $schoolname;


   #get groupname from current database  
   open(SCHOOLDATA,"school_data.pdt") or die "Can't open school data f
+ile: $!";

   while ( <SCHOOLDATA> )
   {
      

      chomp($_);
 
      @split_record = split( /\|/ , $_ );
      
print $split_record[0];

      if( $split_record[0] eq $id )
      {    
          $schoolname = $split_record[1];
      }

        
   }

   close( SCHOOLDATA );

   return( $schoolname );

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and here is the text file 
1|northport hs4|123|image|usd|
2|bunny werks|1234312|image|usd|
3|northport hs5|123|image|usd|
4|northport hs6|123|image|usd|

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Please help me figure out what I am overlooking becasue it should work.

In reply to Cannot read in multiple lines by Angel

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