in reply to Flat Database: Skip the first line

Perhaps use a scalar to keep track of whether you've seen the first line:
my @ODB; my $firstLine++; open (ORGDB, $database) || die "open $database -$!\n"; while (<ORGDB>) { next if ($firstLine); push (@ODB, $_); $firstLine = ''; } close (ORGDB)
Or if you can be sure that first line will not change:
my @ODB; open (ORGDB, $database) || die "open $database - $!\n"; while (<ORGDB>) { next if (substr($_, 0, 12) eq 'company_name'); push (@ODB, $_); } close (ORGDB);