use strict; my $input = "quotes.txt"; my ($quote,$time); my $actualquote; my $actualtime; my $hour; my $minute; my $second; my $picksecond; open(DATAFILE, "$input") || die("Can't open $input:!\n"); $picksecond =1; while () { chomp $_; ($quote,$time) = split(",", $_); ($hour,$minute,$second) = split(":",$time); if ($second==0) {$actualtime=$time; $actualquote=$quote;$picksecond=99;} if ($second>$picksecond) {$picksecond=$second;$actualtime=$time; $actualquote=$quote;} print "$quote\t$time\t$second\n"; } print "$picksecond\t$actualtime\t$actualquote\n";