use strict;

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use warnings; # as well!

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my $countline = 0;
my $mytest;
open (MYFILE,"<testing.txt")||die "Could not open input file\n";

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(A matter of personal preference but 
open my $fh, '<', "testing.txt" or die "Could not open input file: $!\
+n";

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may be better. Pay attention to all the details...) 
while($mytest = <MYFILE>) {

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You may want 
while( defined($mytest = <MYFILE>) ) {

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to be more precise. Which is a good reason IMHO to use Perl's idiomatic 
while(<MYFILE>) {

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         my @datas= split (/\s+/, $mytest);
         


       if ($datas[0] eq "Hello")

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Incidentally, no need to create the array: 
       if ( (split /\s+/, $mytest)[0] eq "Hello" )

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works just fine. Also, splitting on /\s+/ is actually different from splitting on ' ' (see perldoc -f split) but the latter is in most cases what one really wants, and in fact it is also the default. So, had you also used the topicalizer as hinted above, this may have been just as simple as 
       if ( (split)[0] eq "Hello" )

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and in that case I would have used it as a statement modifier: 
       $countline++ if +(split)[0] eq "Hello";

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my @test1 = $countline;
print $test1[0];

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Huh?!?

all in all if I understand correctly what that you want to achieve, this may have been just as simple as 

while (<>) { push @wanted, $_ if +(split)[0] eq "Hello" }

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(but you may also want to chomp.)

In reply to Re: help with an array by blazar
in thread help with an array by cravena

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