I have a small flatfile, ~100 lines, that I need to access and change one entry in. For example

abc1|0001|Yes
abc2|0002|Yes
abc3|0003|No
abc4|0004|No
....
abc100|0100|No

What I need to do is find the first occurance of No and change it to Yes. Pretty simple usually.... But for some reason, it will find the first occurance and change that and the next occurance also.

What I get is.
abc1|0001|Yes
abc2|0002|Yes
abc3|0003|Yes
abc4|0004|Yes

Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Jim

open INF,'</var/www/htdocs/cgi-bin/user.txt' or die "Can't open input 
+file";
my $flag = 0;
while (<INF>)
{
   local($^I, @ARGV) = ('.bak', 'user.txt');
   while (<>) {
      if (/^(.+)(\|No)$/ && $flag != 1) {
         $flag = 1;
         print "$1|Yes\n";
         ($Name,$Pass,$Used) = split /\|/,$_,3;
      }
      else {
         print;
      }
   }
}
close INF;

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2006-10-17 Retitled by jeffa, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Driving me crazy.....'

In reply to Problem changing only first occurence of pattern in file by JimJx

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