First let me advise that you should start use-ing strict and warnings. Today. What you are describing seems like the expected behavior from XML::Twig. Are you asking how to quickly return from 'product' once one of your conditions has been hit? I am no XML::Twig expert but you could do that with a closure like this: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use XML::Twig;
use Net::Telnet();

$db = "hrdm2";
$comm = "stop-$db.sh";
$cachedel = "No";
$done = 0;

my $s= new XML::Twig( TwigHandlers=> { Product => \&product});
$s->parsefile( 'testservers2.xml');
exit;

sub product
  {
  my ($s, $product)= @_;
  return if $done;
    my %product;

  # In all your if/elsif statements add
  $done = 1;

  # Rest of your code

}

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In reply to Re: Perl code looping using XML::Twig by roubi
in thread Perl code looping using XML::Twig by coding_new

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