Hi All, This is part of my question previously, when I have a pl that separates the files into each CITY based (separating every set of textline). The problem now is, I cannot reset the PAGE NUMBERS on each filenames. It just continues e.g.: file 1: has pages 1,2,3,4 file 2: has pages 5,6,7,8,9 (this should reset to 1)

***** FILE 1 Orlando *****
                        FLORIDA 
         Inventory Report   CITY: Orlando     Page1 
111    Item1                      $1000 
222    Item2                      $2000 
449    Item3                      $9999

***** FILE 2 Miami ******** Should RESET the Page # to 1 *****
                         FLORIDA
         Inventory Report   CITY: Miami     Page2
349    Item1                      $3050


                        FLORIDA
         Inventory Report   CITY: Miami     Page3
349    Item1                      $3050
224    Item2                      $2340
982    Item3                      $9029
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I tried the local and have sub to restore a static values but it never worked. Maybe there's simpler way to do it. ALSO: Do I just need to insert a SPECIAL CHAR in order to have PAGE breaks? Here's the code below:

my ($file);
my $time = time;
use POSIX 'strftime'; 
my $runtime = strftime '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S', localtime;
print $runtime;

my $page_count = 0;


while (<FILE>){
    chomp($_);
    if ( /CITY/ ... /FLORIDA/ )
        {
          my $county=0;
          
          if ( ($file) = $_ =~ m/CITY:\s+(\w+)/ ) {
        close(FH);
        
        dynamic();
        
        if ($file != $var)
        {
          $page_count = 0;
        }  
        
        $file .= '.txt';
 
        open(FH, ">> CORAGN$file");
        ++$page_count;
                
        print FH "RUN DATE/TIME:  $runtime                          DE
+PT OF INFO SYSTEM                                   REPORT: COSRAGIN\
+n";
        print "                                            STATEWIDE D
+AILY  REPORT                        PAGE:    $page_count\n";
     }
        
    print FH "$_\n" unless $_ =~ m/FLORIDA/;
    
    } 
    
} 

close FILE;
closedir DIR;


sub visible {
    print "\nvar has value $var";
    print "\nfile has value $file";
    
    }
    
sub dynamic {
  
  local $var = $file;
  visible();
}
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Thanks in Advance..

Edit by castaway - linkified