Contrast if ($row ne "Ships in ... with join(',', @$row)?

In the second example you are using $row as an array reference. In the first, as a string. To paraphrase someone, you can't just make it up and expect things to work :)

Try printing $row and @$row inside the second loop. It may give you a clue as to what you should be looking at to detect the condition. I suspect that you should be doing something along the lines of: 

foreach my $row ($ts->rows) {
   if ($row->[ 3 ] ne "Ships in port or not reporting today:") {
   ...

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But if you print the records to the screen, print join',', @$row; then you'll be able to see which element of $row contains the text you are looking for. (Remember arrays start counting from 0.)

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In reply to Re^4: Setting flags in a conditional by BrowserUk
in thread Setting flags in a conditional by mcoblentz

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