Any suggestions on how to declare a variable in a loop without overwriting it. I have to go through this report and pull data off of each line. So, if I store the data in variable and goes through the loop again, it re-initializes my variable. 
open TESTFILE, "Y:/Perl Projects/TEST" or die "Couldn't open Test Repo
+rt file: $!";


my ($variable1, $variable2);
my @return_details, 
    
while (my $test = <TESTFILE>) {
    #if i delcare the variable here it will re-inialize    it next tim
+e it loops through to an undef. 
    next if ($returns =~ m/^(\s)*$/);
    print $returns;
    if (substr($test , 80, 26) =~ m/1ST VARIABLE/) {
        $variable1 = substr($returns, 113, 18);
        next;
        };
    if (substr($test , 80, 25) =~ m/2ND VARIABLE/) {
        $variable2 = substr($test, 113, 18);  
        $rt_flg = 1; 
        };    
    if ($rt_flg eq 1)  {
        push @return_details,
            {   variable1 => $variable1,
                variable2 => $variable2
            };
        $rt_flg = 0;
    };
};

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In reply to Declare Variable in Loop by drodinthe559

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