I receive an array @result, which is my starting point. I think it is an array, but when I run this snippet of code to test the data that is in the array, it would appear that there's a scalar sitting in it. My end-purpose is to calculate the average of the last column, but can't figure out how. Any help is appreciated, thanks. 

my $counter=0;
    foreach my $element (@result) {
    print "\nCHECKPOINT\n $result[$counter]\n";
    $counter ++;
    }

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Result:

CHECKPOINT

2017-08-01 20MICRONS 37744

2016-08-01 20MICRONS 25966

2016-04-20 20MICRONS 30807

2016-04-01 20MICRONS 32780

UPDATE: I don't mean to prolong this thread, but hopefully a quick question. My data set is about 100Mb with about 2k records and consequently ((2k-n)*n) loops, 'n' being my averaging period (loops because I'm doing a moving average to smoothen the data series). I tested my data set using a "WHILE", and then using a "FOREACH" (the 2 suggestions that were provided on this thread). Looping via foreach costs me less than a second, whilst looping via while costs several seconds (~5 seconds). I'm new to perl and am wondering if that's how it is meant to be, and consequently, what would be my use case for 'while'. 

foreach (<myarray>) {
  my @dataset = split /blah/, $myarray[$outercounter];
  for ($innercounter = 0; $innercounter < n; $innercounter++) {
     my $counter = $innercounter + $outercounter;
     my @miniarray = split /blah/, $myarray[$counter];
     $sum += $miniarray[x];
     }
  $outercounter ++;
  my $mavg = $sum / n;
  push (@resultset, "the things I need");
  $sum = 0; $mavg = 0;
  last if $outercounter == scalar(@myarray);
  }

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In reply to Unscalar'ize a fake array by Gtforce

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