Re: Sending Email to a list of people using Mail::Sender

Thanks pvaldes and GrandFather, I have tried both of your methods. Both methods lead me to the same error:

syntax error at ./scriptfile line 55, near "if !~"
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I should also have mentioned that the $TestFile also contains other options used in the script, which is initially the reason for why i used a foreach loop. here is the code if it helps any:

foreach $Line (<TESTFILE>) {
        next if ($Line =~ m/^#/);

        if ($Line =~ m/option1\s*=\s*(.*)/) {
            $option1        = $1;
            print "option1 = <$option1>\n";
        }
        if ($Line =~ m/option2\s*=\s*(.*)/) {
            $option2        = $1;
            print "option2 = <$option2>\n";
        }
        if ($Line =~ m/option3\s*=\s*(.*)/) {
            $option3        = $1;
            print "option3 = <$option3>\n";
        }
        if ($Line =~ m/option4\s*=\s*(.*)/) {
            $option4        = $1;
            print "option4 = <$option4>\n";
        }
#        if ($Line =~ m/To\s*=\s*(.*)/) {
#            $To            = $1;
#            print "To = <$To>\n";
#        }
        if ($Line =~ m/option6\s*=\s*(.*)/) {
            $option6        = $1;
            print "option6 = <$option6>\n";
        }
        if ($Line =~ m/option7\s*=\s*(.*)/) {
            $option7        = $1;
            print "option7 = <$option7>\n";
        }
        if ($Line =~ m/option8\s*=\s*(.*)/) {
            $option8        = $1;
            print "option8 = <$option8>\n";
        }
    }
    close(TESTFILE);
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Re^2: Sending Email to a list of people using Mail::Sender
by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 14, 2011 at 01:49 UTC

That could be written more succinctly as:

while (defined (my $Line = <TESTFILE>)) {
    next if ($Line =~ m/^#/);
    next if $Line !~ /(option(?:1|2|3|4|6|7))\s*=\s*(.*)/;
    print "$1 = <$2>\n";
}
close (TESTFILE);
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although I doubt very much that the code you have shown so far is your actual code. Maybe if you showed us some real code that you have actually run and that demonstrates the problem you describe.

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