Patricia E Gorden-Ozgul wrote:
> 
> List,
> 
> I got an answer elsewhere and thought I'd share it -
> 
> my $newdata = 1;
> my $counter = 0;
> while(<DATA>) {
>     chomp;
>     my @data = split('\|');
>     if($newdata) {
>         $newdata = 0;
>         if($data[7] == 1) {
>             $counter = 1;
>         } elsif($data[7] == 2) {
>             $counter = 2;
>         } elsif($data[7] == 3) {
>             $counter = 3;
>         }

Why the if, elsif structure?  Why not just:

          $counter = $data[7];



John
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