Hi Everyone, I am writing a program that is going to send sales quotes and receive data to and from a ftp server. I am trying make it so that if the computer gets disonnected from our RAS it'll redial and then resend the quote that it failed on and all other quotes left in the array. I am wondering what the best way to do this would be. As you can see in the code below, when the transfer fails I call the routine to connect to the RAS. Now I was thinking of using a goto command here to jump back to the beginning of the current for loop after the connection is made. I am hesitant only because I know how goto's should be avoided unless necessary. Is this a good place to use one? or is there another method I should look into? 
#
    # Loop through quotes array and upload each file in the array.
    #
    foreach my $quote (@quotes) {
        system("cls");
        emphasize("Sending quote: $quote");
        my $return = $ftp->put("$quote");
        #
        # If the upload completed $return should == $quote
        # and we can move the file to a backup folder.
        #
        if ($return == $quote) {                                      
+                       # Needs testing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
            move("$quote", "${new_dir}\\$quote") or warn "move failed:
+ $!";
        }
        else {
            while ( &connect_ras() ) {}
            # ShouldI place a goto here and a label at the beginning?
        }

    }
    disconnect_ftp();
}

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