I have a script that outputs data and the total count. Please advise how I can get the count to appear first before the data output. Right now the count comes up after the data output on the very last page. I need the count to show BEFORE the data output. Is that possible?? 

use File::Find;
my $ct = 0;

sub fetcher
{
     if( $_ =~ /\.html?$/)
        {
       my $name = $File::Find::name;
       open ( F, $name ) or die "$!: $name\n";
       while( $line = <F> ) 
        {
            for $i ($line =~ /stuffhere)/gi )
        {
                      print "$i\n";
            $ct++;
                }
             }
      close F;
   }
}
#print "\n\nTotal Count = $ct\n\n";  also tried putting count here and
+ it still prints count after data
find( \&fetcher, "/directory"  );

print "\n\nTotal Count = $ct\n\n";

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In reply to Show count before data output by Anonymous Monk

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