Weird. This script is returning multiple instances of each found record in a strange order. The file it is accessing contains only one record for each item. i've tried commenting out almost the whole file, so it must be in the main guts of the thing, cause i can't get rid of the problem. can anyone spot it? also, a strange thing happens, when you scroll down the browser window, the list moves in incrementally towards the right. 

#!c:/Perl/bin/Perl  -wT
use strict;#force us to pre-declare variables
use CGI qw/:standard/;
print header;#header type is text/html

#require "c:/progra~1/apache~1/apache/cgi-bin/getmenu.cgi";
#& java;

my $value = "Zen";
my $lfilename = "products.pdg";
open (FILE, $lfilename) or &dienice;

my @products;
while ( <FILE> ) {
  if ( /^Begin Product (.*)/i ) {  # We have a product starting line
    my %hash;
    $hash{ 'prodcode' } = $1;  # get the product code.
    $hash{ 'prodname' } = <FILE>;
    $hash{ 'prodprice' } = <FILE>;
    $hash{ 'prodweight' } = <FILE>;
    my $trackinv = <FILE>;
    $hash{ 'tracking' } = ( $trackinv =~ /(Yes|No)/i );
    my $img = <FILE>;
    my($img1,$img2)=split(/\|/, $img); 
        $hash{ 'img1'} = $img1;
        $hash{ 'img2'} = $img2;
    $hash{ 'prodtext' } = <FILE>;
         
    my $line = <FILE>;
    last if ( $line =~ /End Product/ );
    if ( $line =~ /^\s*Begin Option (.*)$/ ) 
    {
      my $name = $1;
      my @option_list;
      while ( <FILE> ) {
       last if ( /End Option/ );
       push @option_list, $_;
      }
      $hash{ $name } = \@option_list;
    } 
else {
 #if there is no option, then stick what's in front of the : as the ha
+sh name, the rest as it's value
my ( $name, $value ) = ( $line =~ /^\s*(.*?):(.*)$/ );
      $hash{ $name } = $value;
   }


  push @products, \%hash;

print "<HTML>";
print "<TABLE ALIGN\= CENTER>";
print "<TR>";
print "<TD>";

foreach my $ref ( @products ) {
if ($ref->{prodname} =~ ($value)){ 

print "<B>";
print $ref->{prodname};
print "</B>";
print "<br>";
print "<IMG SRC\=\"$ref->{img2}\">";
print "<br>";
print $ref->{prodprice};
print "<br>";
print "<a href\=\"shopper\.exe\?preadd\=action\&amp\;key\=$ref->{prodc
+ode}\">", "Add to Cart", "</a>";
#print $ref->{prodtext};
print "<br>";
print "<hr>";
}}}}
close (FILE);

print "</TD>";
print "</TR>";
print "</TABLE>";

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