my @o = `./convert.sh \"$filename\"`;
my @array;
foreach my $line (@o) {
	next if ($line =~ /^\s*$/);
	my %obj;
	my $error = getRecordObject($line,\%obj);
	print "Error code returned is $error for record\n$line\n" if ($error<0);
	push @array, \%obj;
}
.... doing something

print "Total Records : ".scalar(@array)."\n";

##</code><code>##

cat ../file.converted | wc -l
12715