use strict; my $number=0; my $line; my $score; my $std; my $avg; my $name; my $sum; my $totd; open(IN, "pa5c.dat") || die ("Can't open file $!\n"); while($line = ){ chomp($line); ++$number; ($name, $score) = split(/:/, $line); $sum = $sum + $score; $totd += abs($sum - $avg); $std = $totd / $number; } $avg = $sum / $number; printf "The class average is: %3.1f\n", $avg; printf "The standard deviation is: %3.1f\n", $std; __END__#pa5.pl