#!/usr/bin/perl -w open ( FH, 'faketext.txt' ); while ( ) { chomp; push @fake, $_; use strict; sub mean { my (@data) = @_; my $sum; foreach (@data) { $sum += $_; } return ( $sum / @data ); } sub median { my (@data) = sort { $a <=> $b } @_; if ( scalar(@data) % 2 ) { return ( $data[ @data / 2 ] ); } else { my ( $upper, $lower ); $lower = $data[ @data / 2 ]; $upper = $data[ @data / 2 - 1 ]; return ( mean( $lower, $upper ) ); } } sub std_dev { my (@data) = @_; my ( $sq_dev_sum, $avg ) = ( 0, 0 ); $avg = mean(@data); foreach my $elem (@data) { $sq_dev_sum += ( $avg - $elem )**2; } return ( sqrt( $sq_dev_sum / ( @data - 1 ) ) ); } my ( $data, @dataset ); print "Please enter data, separated by commas: "; $data = ; @dataset = split( /[\s,]+/, $data ); print "Median: ", median(@dataset), "\n"; print "Mean: ", mean(@dataset), "\n"; print "Standard Dev.: ", std_dev(@dataset), "\n";