Re^3: Nested While Loop Problem

I am having a little difficulty interpreting your question, so if this answer is off point I apologize. I think what is happening is that since you are accessing the $dir variable outside of the conditional loop, you are caching a value of $dir from a previous traverse of the loop. Perhaps this could be fixed with something along the lines of

if ($fsline =~ /(.:\\.*)/){
    $dir = $1;
    print "$dir\n";  #works fine here
} else {
    next;
}
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Re^4: Nested While Loop Problem by Smith (Initiate) on Feb 06, 2009 at 16:26 UTC
You interpreted my question perfectly, thank you. This fixes my problem. I had tried using next but not with the else. So close but so far away. Thanks very much for your help and fast response.	[reply]