Hi Monks
All that I am trying to do here is to only display the values of **$count **, if it has more then 2 items coming from the database otherwise I wanted it to jump out of the while loop and print that one item found. If I do what I have in my code it will not display the first item but it will start from the second I think I know why this is happening but I do not know what is the best way to do it.
Thank you!!!

my $count;

while ($pointer = $sth->fetchrow_hashref)
  {
       
       $count++;
       
       $type=$pointer->{'NET'};
       $car1 =$pointer->{'CAR1#'};
       $line =$pointer->{'LINE#'};
 
       print "<br><b>$count</b><br>";
              
       if($count >= 2)
       {
        print "<b>**$count **</b>              
       }
       else
       {
       print "<br><b>^^^^ $count_claims ^^^^</b><br>";
       }
       
  }

       if($type)
        {       
           print "<META http-equiv=\"REFRESH\" content=\"0; url=go.htm
+\">";          
        }
        else
        {
           print "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" CONTENT=\"0; URL=notfou
+nd.html\"> \n";
           exit;
        }

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