This is my first time posting so sorry if I don't know the formatting so well. ^_^ I have a script that checks files to see if they are empty(0 size) and if it is empty it writes a name and a number within the file. If it is not empty it goes to the next file and so on. I have it working but I want to condense the code instead of writing it all out ,(thus what loops are for right?) But I can't get it to work with the foreach statement, any advice? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI ':standard';

print "Size of party? ";
chomp ( $size = <STDIN> );

print "Party name? ";
chomp ( $name = <STDIN> );

my @arrayFileQueue;
my @arrayPartyNames;
my $timeFinal;

my @tablesSize = ("tableSize2Two", "tableSize2Three", "tableSize2Four"
+, "tableSize2Five",
"tableSize2Six", "tableSize2Seven", "tableSize2Eight");

if ($size < 9 && $size > 0)
{
 if ($size == 1)
 {
  $randomInt = int(rand 11);
  $time1 = 30 + $randomInt;

  unshift(@arrayPartyNames, $name);

    if (-z "tableSize2One"){
            open(FILE, ">tableSize2One");
            print FILE "@arrayPartyNames[0]";
            close(FILE);
    $timeFinal = $timeFinal + $time1;
    print "You have tableSize2One reserved.";
                   }
        foreach my $i (@tableSize)
                   {
    elsif (-z "$i")
    {
            open(FILE, ">$i");
            print FILE "@arrayPartyNames[0]";
            close(FILE);
                $timeFinal = $timeFinal + $time1;
      print "You have $i reserved";
                                                   }
                } # closes foreach
else
{
print "This is the else statement!";
}
 } #closes if size equal to 1
}  #closes if size is greater than 0 and less than 9

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Thanks!

In reply to Can an if statement run within a foreach loop? by terms5

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