my @ODB; my $firstLine++; open (ORGDB, $database) || die "open $database -$!\n"; while () { next if ($firstLine); push (@ODB, $_); $firstLine = ''; } close (ORGDB) #### my @ODB; open (ORGDB, $database) || die "open $database - $!\n"; while () { next if (substr($_, 0, 12) eq 'company_name'); push (@ODB, $_); } close (ORGDB);