So write that up as a code snippet then we should be able to tell if it makes sense. Even better would be to mock up some data so that you can test the snippet is doing what you expect. Something like:

use strict; use warnings; my $sampleData = <<DATA; this and that wibble the other DATA open my $sitelist, '<', \$sampleData; my $Session = {usrSystem => 'wibble'}; my $str; while (<$sitelist>) { chomp; if (/\Q$Session->{'usrSystem'}\E/) { print "New stuff for $_\n"; } else { print "Something else for $_\n"; } }

Prints:

Something else for This and that New stuff for wibble Something else for the other

Perl is environmentally friendly - it saves trees

In reply to Re^3: loop through file checking for session variable by GrandFather
in thread loop through file checking for session variable by grashoper

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