Hello: gonna keep it brief, as I've gotta get back to work. I wrote my own little "whois" program to iterate through a list of domains work wants me to confirm. Got the data w/out too much pain. Now, I've got to print a report. I've got the format looking the way I want it, but I'm getting huge amounts of duplicates from the loop. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Here's my code: (keep in mind I'm a neophyte, so it won't be pretty!!)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

OUTER: while (<>){

        s/^\s+//; # trim off whitespace...
        next OUTER if /^$/; # ignore blank lines
        chomp;
        $registrant=$_ if (/Registrant:/../\)/);
        $domain_name=$_ if /Domain Name.*/;
        $admin=$_ if /Administrative Contact:/../\)/;
        $tech=$_ if /Technical Contact:/../\)/;
        $billing=$_ if /Billing Contact:/../\)/;
        $expires=$_ if /Record expires on .*/;

         if (/NAME\..+\s+\d{1,3}.\d{1,3}.\d{1,3}/){
                s/Name Server: .*//;
                push @names, $_;
                next OUTER;
                }

          write STDOUT if defined($registrant and $admin and $tech and
+ $billing and $names[2] and $expires);
        }


format STDOUT =
======================================================================
+==========

@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Registrant: @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$domain_name ,                                 $registrant
Admin:   @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<
         $admin
Tech:    @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<
         $tech
Billing: @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<
         $billing
DNS:        @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<
$names[0]         @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$names[1] @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<  
$names[2]@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+<<<<<<<<<<
$expires

======================================================================
+==========
.

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.... I know the DNS portion of the above code is formatted poorly for this post, but it does work. For example, if I were to put in the output from a whois on "perlmonks.org," I'd end up with 18 or so duplicate reports. Any ideas? I'm sure it's a simple fix, but I've been looking at it for so long my brain is fried.
Thanks,
Matt

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