The code posted seems to be an incorrect adaptation from this response to Perlseeker_1, and there seems to be some similarity in the question pattern.

The output shown does not correspond to the input that you claim to have used.

If you would like assistance, please post code and data we can use to reproduce your issue.

What are you expecting the following line of code to do ?: 

for ( @data[ $i * $#data .. ( $i * $#data ) ] ) {

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and why would you want to code it that way ?

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In reply to Re: Reading and writing data to text file and to table by NetWallah
in thread Reading and writing data to text file and to table by learner@perl

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