This is a repost. The entire script is posted below, unlike before when everyone had the wrong idea (to my fault) at what the problem was.

Can someone help me figure out why it prints the last record X number of times rather than all the records of the hash as I want? For example, if I have two names in the hash "Me", "You" and I do this using [ab] (saying $ab is the name), it would print out "You" "You" when you run the script. It always prints the last record X number of times (it'll print 3 times if there are three keys, 10 times if there are 10). Can someone help me make it work so I can do all the substitutions for each key?

(Please don't comment on my variable names, I'll change those when I get this part working). 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
require SDBM_File;


my %data;
my $data     = "mylist.dbm";  
my $specifics= param('specifics');

my $lookup    = url_param('lookup');

tie %data, 'SDBM_File', $data, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0644;
if ( !tied %data ) {
    print "error $!.\n";
    }

print header();
print start_html();

print <<"ALL";

<table width="470" border="0">
<form name="extract" method="post" action="extract.pl">
<tr><td colspan="2"><textarea name="specifics" cols="40" rows="5" id="
+specifics">$specifics</textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td><input type="submit" name="submit1" value="submit"></td></tr>
</form>
</table>

ALL

if (param('submit1'))
{

 foreach (sort keys %data)
 {
   my ($ab, $bb, $cb, $db, $eb, $fb) = split(/::/, $data{$_});

$specifics =~ s/\[a\]/$ab/;
$specifics =~ s/\[b\]/$bb/;
$specifics =~ s/\[more\]/$data{$_}/;
$specifics =~ s/\[c\]/$cb/;
$specifics =~ s/\[d\]/$db/;
$specifics =~ s/\[e\]/$eb/;
$specifics =~ s/\[f\]/$fb/;



   print "$specifics<br>";

  }

}

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In reply to Only printing last hash (repost) by Anonymous Monk

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