#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $resultnow='C:/Users/user/Desktop/solution.dat'; open (FILE, '<', $resultnow) or die "$resultnow File not found : $!"; my @lines = ; my $valuenow= $lines[9]; my @items=split' ',$valuenow; use Data::Dumper; #print Dumper(@items); my $val=Dumper("$items[-1]"); my $n= "$val+8"; print $n; close (FILE);