I have an array after splitting a text document into three different columns. I'm trying to retrieve the first value in the first column to compare against other values in that column and then print out that initial value but, when I use the following code, it prints all of the first column. I've tried several different methods of doing this but I think I'm just not understanding something. The code is below and any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Input-

1424621700, 2015-02-22 16:15:00, 4294.700
1424621760, 2015-02-22 16:16:00, 4289.700
1424621820, 2015-02-22 16:17:00, 4299.800
1424621880, 2015-02-22 16:18:00, 4302.800
1424621940, 2015-02-22 16:19:00, 4296.900
1424622000, 2015-02-22 16:20:00, 4301.000
1424622060, 2015-02-22 16:21:00, 4300.300

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Script-

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $file = $ARGV[0];

open (RAW, "./$file") or die "Can't open $file for read: $!";
open (OUT, ">./OUTPUT_$file") or die "Can't open Output_$file: $!";

while(<RAW>) {

        my $line = $_;
        chop($line);
        next if ($line =~ /!/);
        my @splits = split (',', $line);

        my $first_value = @splits[0];

print "$first_value\n";
}

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Wanted output-

1424621700

In reply to How do I select first string of a two dimensional array to compare to other values? by joi1369

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