Thank you very much!! This was very helpful information. However, my data file is way too large to be able to use inside the code. I tried running it with the format below, and i'm getting 0 values are greater than x for all of the elements. Is there something wrong with the way i'm opening the file? 

 open (IN, "<$ARGV[0]") || die ("Cannot open $ARGV[0]: $!");
@MyData = <IN>;
use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say';

my @col9 = map {(split)[8]} <IN>;

foreach my $test (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) {
    my $count =scalar grep {$_ >= $test} @col9;
    say sprintf "%d values were >= %d", $count, $test;
}

[download]

In reply to Re^2: Creating a Hash using only one column in an imported data file by Koda1234
in thread Creating a Hash using only one column in an imported data file by Koda1234

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.