I have a text file generated with file names that have already printed. I am trying to loop through the .txt file and if I see a file name, don't do anything. However, with the way I have it written, if ANY file shows up, nothing prints (print to another .dat file). How do I control the loop through the PARTS text file? Here's my code snip:

$partlist = "D:\\scripts\\partlist.txt";

#get the parts that have already been printed
open(PARTS, $partlist) || die "Can't open file: $!";
@PARTS= <PARTS>;
close(PARTS);

#set counter
$found = 0;
            
foreach $PARTS(@PARTS) {
if  ($PARTS == $ordnum) {
$found=1;
}}

if ($found eq 0){

$verifile = $outbox.$ordnum.".dat";

##Open output file to write to 
open(OUTPUT_FILE, ">>$verifile")||die "Can't open file: $!";
print OUTPUT_FILE $these.$happy.$variables
close OUTPUT_FILE;

else

{
#nothing
}

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I know my logic is a little off, but can't seem to iron it out. Any thoughts?

update:
$partlist contains, for example, the text printfileA, I am going out to a DB getting an order number and then bringing back in with a hash... if the result of the order is printfileA.dat then it should not print since it's already been printed as indicated by $partlist. However, if my DB results show printfileA.dat and then printfileB.dat, printfileB.dat never gets created because the script stopped once it saw printfileA.dat. Sorry if I haven't been clear enough.

-Hu

Edit: g0n - code tags

In reply to Looping through a file by baixiaohu

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