Hi, I have a simple 30 line perl script which basically just compares a bunch of numbers in a list. I'm a little rusty with perl as I haven't used it in a few years now, but no matter what I try, I can't get past the syntax error which is complaining about the line where I compare two numbers out of my array. I've given up and just can't see what is wrong. Is there a monk out there who could guide me please? I hate to post up on such a simple thing, but I'm totally stuck. Running the script complains of a syntax error: 
$ ./perlAnalyzeDailyStats.pl
syntax error at ./perlAnalyzeDailyStats.pl line 29, near "@array("
Execution of ./perlAnalyzeDailyStats.pl aborted due to compilation err
+ors.

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  1 #!/usr/bin/perl
  2 
  3 @files = `ls -1trh s3_dailystats.*`;
  4 foreach (@files)
  5         {
  6         $filename = $_;
  7         #print $filename;
  8         open(FH,"<$filename");
  9         while(<FH>)
 10                 {
 11                 $line = $_;
 12                 if($line =~ /([0-9]{17,18})/)
 13                         {
 14                         print "$1\n";
 15                         push(@array,$1);
 16                         last;
 17                         }
 18                 }
 19         }
 20 $arrayCount = @array;
 21 print "array count is $arrayCount";
 22 foreach(@array)
 23         {
 24         if ($counter eq $arrayCount)
 25                 {
 26                 last;
 27                 }
 28         $counter++; 
 29         print "difference is " . @array($counter) - @array($counte
+r - 1);
 30         }
 31

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