drodinthe559 you seem to think that next will not alter the control flow of your program , which in this case it does alter. In other words , you cannot write two consecutive next statements and hope that you will skip 2 iterations of the while loop. However , you can skip 2 iterations like this

while(<SOURCE>) {
    my $source = $_;    
    if($source =~ m/^(\s)*$/) {
        $source = <SOURCE> for 1..2;
    }
    #Go through each line until you hit page 1 of sorter 2
    if (substr($source,145,16) =~ <b>/Page:\s*1/)</b> {
        $source = <SOURCE> for 1..2;
        if (substr($source,72,9) =~ /Sorter: 2/) {
            ++$dcount;
        printf LOGFILE $source;
        }   
    }
}
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