I doubt that you want to open the door to having the test fail endlessly, and sleeping and retrying over and over. My guess is that you want to retry up to some maximum number of times, and complain very loudly if it doesn't pass within the allowed number of retries, I.E.: 
my $max_tries = 5;

foreach $item (@array) {
   my $tries = 0;
   while(some_test($item) and $tries++ < $max_tries) {
      print "Failure: $item, trying again after sleep\n";
      sleep 10;
   }

   if( $tries == $max_tries){
      die "Failed $tries times, aborting";
   }else{
      print "Success: $item\n";
   }
}

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In reply to Re: Back step in foreach loop by duckyd
in thread Back step in foreach loop by rosenrosen

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