Joseph Paish wrote:
> how do you use the "line number" variable inside a while loop like i
> am trying to do below?
>
> i never get to process the first line of the file, and as a result,
> subsequent calculations are inaccurate. it always jumps to the
> second "if" statement.
The way you're using it looks OK to me, so something else is going on. How
do you know the first if() block is not being executed?
>
> thanks
>
> joe
>
> =========
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict ;
> use warnings ;
>
> open (fh1, "/path/to/data/file.txt") or die ("arg123 ... no can do") ;
>
> while (<fh1>) {
> chomp ;
> if ($. == 1 ) { # first line is initial values
> my @initial_values = split / /, $_ ;
> # process intial values here
> }
>
> if ($. > 1) {
> #process subsequent values here
> }
>
> } # end of while loop
>
> close (fh1) ;
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