use strict; my @stat_array = ( "ibfarm102 - localtick", "Boston" , "hibmis100 - procHKHD2 - Hongkong", "PidMonRsp", "eufarm102 - localtick", "London", "hibmis100 - procHKHD2 - Hongkong", "PidMonReq", "ibfarm102 - localtick", "New York", "hibmis100 - procHKHD2 - Hongkong", "PidMonRsp", "ibfarm102 - localtick", "New York", "hibmis100 - procHKHD2 - Hongkong", "OCOMsg2" ); while (my @group_of_4 = splice(@stat_array, 0 , 4)) { my $rowstring = join(' ', @group_of_4); if ($rowstring =~ /OCOMsg2/) { print MAIL "\n"; } else { print MAIL "\n"; } for my $data (@group_of_4) { print MAIL "$data\n"; } print MAIL "\n"; }