Ah yes. Your monkish "Cruise Ship" director here. I thought this simple conditional would work just fine but I seem to have just missed some fine piece of logic.

I'm dumping an extracted HTML table of Cruise Ships (table is SHIPNAME,DATETIME,LATITUDE,LONGITUDE,CALLSIGN) to a csv file and one of the lines in the table is a break saying that the following "Ships in port or not reporting today:". So I thought I would break out of processing that line and then set a flag for all remaining ships ($in_port = "true").

However, all the output shows that the flag isn't being set and the line isn't being skipped in the output. Why is that? It's probably a real simple thing but I'm not seeing it. 

my $in_port;
 foreach my $ts ($te->tables) {
   foreach my $row ($ts->rows) {
   if ($row != "Ships in port or not reporting today:") # not a ship n
+ame; skip this and set the in_port flag for all remaining ships
      {
      $in_port = "false";
      $out_fh->print (join(',', @$row), ",", $in_port, "\n");
      }
      else {$in_port = "true"};
   }
 }

[download]

In reply to Setting flags in a conditional by mcoblentz

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.