note dsheroh Just for the sake of Another Way To Do It, here's one that doesn't have to look at array indexes: <c> #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my @array = qw( app Oracle EPDMCA Oracle EPZXC ); my $show_next; for my $element (@array) { print "$element found\n" if $show_next; $show_next = ($element eq 'Oracle'); } </c> 976239 976239