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my $line; open FH,"file.ext" or die $!; $line=$_ while(<FH>); close FH; #now the last line is in $line my($id)=split(/\|/,$line); #now you can use $id+1
my $id; open FH,"file.ext" or die $!; ... } close FH; #and again you use $id+1