So recently I have been hired to write a program, but this time it was in Perl and I am completely unfamiliar with the script and am having trouble getting going on it. My employer provided me with the Perl books, I worked my way through the short one but once I hit the huge one I decided to see if I could pick out just what I needed to know, well the things I needed to know where at the end of the book and it seemed like you needed to know everything prior to that. Well enough chit-chat, here is the gist of what I have to do: experiments are carried out step by step and at each step about 10 different values are returned to the computer. Every step is listed one after the other in a text file. So what I'm supposed to do is open this text file, find each step, grab the values of temperature and time increment only and put the three into a list on a new text doc. So not knowing a lot of perl I'm kind of lost right now as to how to attack it. I am unfamiliar with the way in which perl opens a text file and how I can search it to pull out the necessary values. For additional reference the text file I need to open is called 'hout.txt' and I am working on windows just writing scripts in notepad. Thanks in advance.

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