I have a dat file looking like this: 

Running totals:
Question 1: 60
Question 2: 123
Question 3: 99

Averages:
Question 1: 4.6
Question 2: 9.5
Question 3: 7.6

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I have a code to store the Running totals into a hash, such as the following: 

my %hash; my $key; my $value;
open(ANSWERTALLY, "answertally.dat");
while(ANSWERTALLY n) {
  ($key, $value) = split(/\s=\s/);
   chomp($value);   
   $hash{$key} = $value;
   }
close(ANSWERTALLY);

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However, this code will try to read everything in the file. How can I tell it to skip the first line (RUNNING TOTALS), and stop executing when it encounters AVERAGES:??? I'm not too good with string manipulation or regular expressions.

Thanks

In reply to reading from middle of file by guisilva

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