As soon as you're done reading from <IGUSERS> the first time, you can't just repeat the loop later on and continue reading from it from the beginning. The last operator simply breaks out of the loop. It doesn't affect the file pointer for IGUSERS. Thus, if you use 'last' to break out 75% of the way through your file, the next time you come into your loop, you're starting your read from 75% through the file, not the beginning. Your best option is to read everything from IGUSERS once into an array (or a hash for quick lookups), and do your comparisons against this variable in your big loop.

In reply to Re: Problem with 'last' or problem with me? by Fastolfe
in thread Problem with 'last' or problem with me? by mofo

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