Thankyou both for that and the advice. I am a complete newbie to this PERL programming.

I have statistical work to do, which I had tried to do with excel, but PERL seems to give me more flexibility and simplicity, also I have upto 10 million samples which Excel cant handle in one go.

I am a neuroscientist working on the random generation of values in which we are trying to mimick a model from nature. The more data samples I have, the more acurate my calculations are.
I can generate the random elements great, but processing them is tricky while trying to learn PERL at the same time.
I have the 7th edition camel book, and as it says in there, as a beginner I am struggling with the efficiency of the written code.

Also, as you have recognised, part of my problem is asking a question in a way that others understand.

The last two questions that I asked are similar but I was thinking I might try the code in two different ways. Maybe betterjust to tell you what I am trying to do in a new post as you suggest.

In reply to Re^2: Reversing the action of the while loop by Scotmonk
in thread Reversing the action of the while loop by Scotmonk

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