my $filename = "faketext.txt"; open my $fh, '<', $filename or die "Can't write to '$filename': $!\n"; #### while(my $eachLine = <$fh>) { chomp($eachLine); my @dataset = split( /[\s,]+/, $eachLine ); print "Median: ", median(@dataset), "\n"; print "Mean: ", mean(@dataset), "\n"; print "Standard Dev.: ", std_dev(@dataset), "\n"; }