Hi everyone, used loads of answers on this from other peoples questions before but never asked a question... I have a foreach loop which the array holds line by line of a file. The file is being modified line by line to translate its format. Unfortunately the source file has changed format and now there are tables which run over multiple lines. What I want to do is: 
foreach $line (@lines)
{
 if ($line =~m/^SY /)
 {
  $line =~s/^SY/CN/)
  if (next =~m/^SY /)
   {
    next =~s/^SY/  /;
   }
 }
}
# so if the first line starts 'SY' replace with 'CN', but if the next 
+after the replacement does, then change SY on the next line for '  '.

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I don't think 'next' can't be modified as a scalar though...any ideas? Cheers! Stevie

In reply to Modifying 'next' in foreach loop by Anonymous Monk

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