Old monk here that couldn't even remember my original membername...
I have a foreach loop that I need to stop after a certain match is made. I added a Label to start the foreach loop, but when I match my condition and call Last, it does not end. Can another set of eyes help me see what I'm not seeing? This is a customized subroutine from afpdump.pl (parsing the details from a .afp file). After I read the total, I do not want to read any other dates or info. The match works perfectly but calling Last does not.
TIA
sub dump_afp {
    my $obj = shift;
    my $struct = $obj->struct;
    my @keys = sort grep !/^_|^(?:Data|EscapeSequence|ControlCode|Leng
+th|CC|(?:Sub)?Type|FlagByte)$/, keys %$struct;
    push @keys, 'Data' if exists $struct->{Data};
WID: foreach my $key (@keys) {
    next if ref $struct->{$key};
    length($x = $struct->{$key}) or next;
    if ($obj->ENCODING and grep { $key eq $_ } $obj->ENCODED_FIELDS) {
        $x = $obj->$key;
        $x = qq("$x");
    }
    elsif ($x =~ /[^\w\s]/) {
        $x = "";
    }
    if ($key eq 'Data') {
    if($x =~ m/^\"(\w|\d|\$)/) {
        $x =~ s/\"|\(|\)//g;
        if($x =~ m/^\d\d\/\d\d\/\d\d\s/){
        my @dateinfo = split(/\s/, $x);
        if($dateinfo[0] =~ m/^\d\d\/\d\d\/\d\d/) {
        print "<DATE>";
        print $dateinfo[0];
        print "</DATE>\n";
        print "<DESCRIPTION>";
        print $dateinfo[1];
        print "</DESCRIPTION>\n";
        }
        }
        else {
        if($x =~ m/^\d\d\/\d\d\/\d\d/) {
        print "<DATE>";
        print $x;
        print "</DATE>\n";
        }
        if (($x !~/^\d\d\/\d\d\/\d\d/)&&($x != "Patient")){
        if ($x !~ /^((\d+)||(\d+,\d+))\.\d\d/){
        print "<DESCRIPTION>";
        print $x;
        print "</DESCRIPTION>\n";
        }
        }
        }
        if ($x =~ m/^((\d+)||(\d+,\d+))\.\d\d/){
        print "<AMOUNT>";
        print $x;
        print "</AMOUNT>\n";
        }
        if($x =~ m/^((\$\d+)||(\$\d+,\d+))\.\d\d/) {
        print "<TOTAL>";
        print $x;
        print "</TOTAL>\n";
        }
    }
    }
    if ($x =~ m/^Patient/){
    last WID;
    }
    }
    if ($obj->has_members) {
    dump_members($obj);
    }
}

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