The following snippet is not looping. 
sub get_section {
print join ':', @_ ;
        for (@_) {
print ;
                /\.dat/ && do {$file = join '/', ($docdir, $_);
                               $pubdate = substr ($_, 1, 4);
                               print "$file \:\: $pubdate\n" ;
                               @dat = get_file($file) ;
                               sort_dat(@dat) ;
                               print_sect() ;  } ;
        }
}

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Looking at the above, and assuming that my dats are E0209.dat, F0210.dat, and H0211.dat, I get:
E0209.dat:F0210.dat:H0211.dat (First print statement)
E0209.dat (Second print statement)
/data/E0209.dat :: 0209 (End of loop)

Shouldn't the "for" take care of looking at every value in the array?? If not, I am without my Perl Refs and would appreciate a quick fix. Thanks, Hammy

In reply to Not looping... Am I a moron? by HamNRye

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