Hi, I'm trying to read numbers from a file with the following format: 25 ((18 25 4) (3 12 1)) I use the following code: 

open (INFILE,$post)
  or die "**| Couldn't open file general: $post";
  while (<INFILE>) {
      @words = split;
  }
  close (INFILE);
  $L=($words[2]+$words[5]);
  $D=($words[1]+$words[4]);
  $M=($words[3]+$words[6]);

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$L and $M get the right value (L=37, M=5) but $D=0 instead of the expected value of 21. I guess this is due the presence of parentheses. How can I read the correct values? How to specify that parentheses should not be read? Thank you very much, Lluis

In reply to Trying to read numbers from a text file by biscarri

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