Aloha Monks,
I'm still struggling and learning, I do see progress but it is slow. I seek help with the following, it is almost what I want but I can not get the first (outside) loop to stop.

For brevity I'm posting the code that is my problem, I'm not sure to do that or paste everything, but hey I'm sure I'll find out. I will also take any advice that you wise ones wish to give. Mahalo
Joseph W. Guillaume 

#$lines is how many big loops
#I know there will be 5 lines of data in each loop

$lines =scalar@data/5;
#print "LINES $lines<p\/>";

#for ($i=1; $i<=$lines; $i++) {
foreach ($lines) {

for ($i=1; $i<=4; $i++) {    
    $certification = shift(@data);
    
print "Certification is $certification on ";
    $number = shift (@data);
    $month = $mon [$number-1];
    
print "$month";

    $day = shift (@data);
print "  $day";

    $year = shift(@data);
print " $year";    

    $mo_yr = shift(@data);
#print " $mo_yr";    

print "<p\/><HR>";    

}

}

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