I'm not sure the regex that you use to match a data line is excatly right, so that may be the problem. To answer the second part, and probably make the overall program easier to debug, I'd do it was if's inside one while loop. I'd also break up the regexps into multiple lines. So you'd have something like this: 
    if (/^(\d+)\s+              # $1 = CardNo
          (\d\d\/\d\d)\/        # $2 = MMDD
          (\d+)\s+               # $3 = YY
          M=(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+    # $4 = TotalNo $5 = StormNo
          SNBR=\s*(\d+)\s+      # $6 = SNBR
          (.+)\s+               # $7 = Name
          XING=(\d+)\s+         # $8 = XING
          SSS=(\d+)             # $9 = SSS
         /x)
     {
        # matched the header line
        my ($CardNo, $MMDD, $YY, $TotalNo, $StormNo, $SNBR, $Name, $XI
+NG, $SSS) =
           ($1,      $2,    $3,  $4,       $5,       $6,    $7,    $8,
+    $9);

        $Name =~ s/NOT NAMED\s+/NONAME/; # replace and strip trailing 
+spaces
       
        print "$MMDD $TotalNo $Name$StormNo-$YY $XING $SSS $CardNo\n";

        next;
    }

    if (# regexp for data line.....)
    ........

}

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in thread New to Regex and need help by MKevin

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