You can also split the detection of WINDSOR RIVER from the extraction on the values. Here is my way ...

#!usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use List::Util qw(sum); my @windsordigits; while (my $x = <DATA>){ next unless $x =~ /WINDSOR\sRIVERSIDE/; push @windsordigits, +(split /,/, $x)[-1]; } die "No 'Windsor digits found in input\n" unless @windsordigits; my $average = sum(@windsordigits) / @windsordigits; print "Average is: $average\n"; __DATA__ CA006139520,"WINDSOR RIVERSIDE, ON CA",2018-01-02,10 CA006139520,"WINDSOR RIVERSIDE, ON CA",2018-01-02,20 CA006139520,"WINDSOR RIVERSIDE, ON CA",2018-01-02,14 CA006139520,"WINDSOR DRIVE, ON CA",2018-01-02,10

I use a regex to match, then if we matched in the regex, split the line on the , character and take the last element or the resulting list using the [-1] offset.

Update

Added a die if no digits are detected in the input.

Cheers,
R.

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In reply to Re: Illegal division by zero by Random_Walk
in thread Illegal division by zero by drose2211

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