Hey guys, I am extremely new to perl, about a month into it, and have written an application that works without issue, however I would love to clean it up with some for or foreach loops, and would like to hear some suggestions... Here is a blurb from my code that I would like cleaned up: 
if (scalar@row1 == "6")
{        @entry1 = (@required , @row1);
                $digest1 = sha1_hex(@entry1);
                        $sth = $dbh->prepare($query);
                        $sth->execute($digest1);
                        $data1 = $sth->fetchrow_array();
                                if ($data1 ne $digest1) {
                                        push(@entry1, $digest1);
                                        $sth = $dbh->prepare($insert);
                                        $sth->execute(@entry1);
                                        &create_pdf(@entry1);
                                        $msg->attach(
                                        Type     => 'image/gif',
                                        Path     => "../pdfs/ir_$diges
+t1.pdf",
                                        Filename => "ir_$digest1.pdf",
                                        Disposition => 'attachment')
                                                        } else {$dberr
+or .= "The following row you submitted: <br> @entry1 <br>already exsi
+ts in the database and will note be re-submitted. <br>"}
};

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My dilemma is that I have repeated this code 5 times changing only the numbers at the end of my arrays and variables which is where I would like the for loop to come in so I would only need to have the one iteration. Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions/help!

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