Hello,

I am in need of much help. I would like to open a text file that contains hundreds of lines of tab delimited numerical values (hundreds of values per line) between 0 and 255. I would like to take the mean average of all these values (so I guess the program would add up all the values and then divide them by the number of values per file). So the result for each text file would be a single value between 0 and 255.

I would like to perform this on a series of files and then create a single text file that holds all of these mean values, each on a new line:

i.e.,
230
198
194
6
201
57
115
...etc.

Also, this would need to be run with the perl included with Mac OS X.

Thanks to whoever is willing to help me take on this seemingly simple task (yet difficult for me in a language with which I am not familiar.)

Thanks again,
Brian

In reply to Read in values and average -- Perl for MacOS X by briglass

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