Thank you for the welcome! Let me try to clarify things a bit. This is the 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

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I'm trying to run it through this script (fixed from above)- 

#!/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_line = $splits;
print "$first_line\n";
}

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I am trying to get the string "1424621700" assigned to "$first_line" and then printed. Sorry about the disorganization. I'm new to Perl and haven't quite gotten the hang of it yet.

In reply to Re^2: How do I select first string of a two dimensional array to compare to other values? by joi1369
in thread How do I select first string of a two dimensional array to compare to other values? by joi1369

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