The line 'my $slotnumber = <OUTFILE>;' is only ever going to get you one line from OUTFILE, but you may already know this. I'm kind of suprised that it's giving you a 5 instead of a 1, though, with the sample data that you provided.

I'm almost afraid to offer advice since I may not fully grasp the issue, but would it not be an straight-forward matter to print each match to a separate line in OUTFILE, and then just read each match in a while loop as you eject?

Update:
It's probably not necessary to print anything to another file, unless you're going to need those values for another purpose, so your code could probably be simplified into something like:

use strict;
use warnings;

system ("c:\\Perl\\DataPro\\convert.bat");
open(DPSLOTFILE, "< c:\\Perl\\DataPro\\newreport.txt") or die "Can't o
+pen file: $!";
while ( <DPSLOTFILE> ) {
    my $dpdrivloc = "MSL6000 Trinity";
    if ( /\Q$dpdrivloc\E:\s*(\d+)/ ) {
    #use match for system call!
    system("c:\\Perl\\DataPro\\omnimm -eject \"MSL6000 Trinity\" $1 -l
+ocation \"blahblahblah\"");
    print OUTFILE "$1";
    }
}
close DPSLOTFILE;

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In reply to Re: Modify code help by Art_XIV
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