Greetings Monks, I have a short perl script that is not behaving as it should. This is what it needs to do: 1.read a file in one line at a time 2.subtract the value in position[0] from a a starting value I call $seed 3.if the difference is >= 0.1, then print position[0]."\n" and then set $seed equal to the value in position[0] and go on to the next line 4.if the difference is <0.01, go to the next line. Here is the script that I have tried: 
 
#!/usr/bin/perl
open TAB, "test.txt";
<TAB>;
$seed = 1.04;
while (<TAB>){
    @tab = split ' ';
    $diff = "$tab[0]" - "$seed";
    if ($diff ge 0.1){print "@tab\n" && $seed eq $tab[0]} else {next};
}

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Can anyone fix this script? Thanks much, Etbr77

In reply to Simple iteration problem by Etbr77

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