If you post your code in <CODE></CODE> tags, it will format properly.

Your problem is that you are trying to split on the file specified on the command line since your are splitting the diamond operator (<>). This forces a new read of the file (hence skipping a line). In your case, try splitting on $_ instead. Also, I suggest that you enable warnings (-w) and use strict. These will save you many hours of heartbreak in the long-run. Here's a slight clean-up of your code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my @chunks;
open(LIST, ">newlist.lst") or die;  #the new classlist
select(LIST);                       #select the newlist for output
while (<DATA>) {
    @chunks = split(/\",\"/ , $_);   #split the lines at ","  
    print $chunks[5] , " , " , $chunks[6] ," , ", $chunks[7]," , , , "
+,$chunks[4] ," , ", $chunks[4] , " , , " ,unpack("A1",lc($chunks[7]))
+,lc($chunks[6]), "\n";
}
close(LIST);    #we're done!

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Cheers,
Ovid

Update: Of course, once again I post only to see that someone else got there first. I really need to remember to check that.

In reply to (Ovid) Re: every other line? by Ovid
in thread every other line? by Anonymous Monk

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