Re^2: Help on foreach loop

it still dosen't reset $newFile, for the first iteration $newFile = sample.txt in the next iteration $newFile is still sample.txt, and in my script I clearly move the sample.txt to another diretory after it was found the first time,

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Re^3: Help on foreach loop by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Sep 09, 2004 at 15:53 UTC
Sounds like $ARGV isn't changing, possibly because the file isn't closed? Try closing ARGV within the while loop: `@ARGV = <$responseDir/>; while (<>) { $newFile = $ARGV, close ARGV, last if /^"$commonField"$/; }` [download] Caution:* Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply] [d/l]