here is a small and simple script, and yet its doing something that i dont understand On line ten, its giving a "Use of uninitialized value at test.pl line 10." warning. It seems like all the values are indeed initialized. What am I missing? 
#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -w 
$file = 'foo.txt';

open(SESAME, $file);
@lines = <SESAME>;
close(SESAME);
$total = @lines;
for ($i=0; $i <= $total; $i++)
{                                              
   if ($lines[$i] eq "\n") # This is line the line
       {
       pop @lines;
       $i = $i -1;
       $total = @lines;
       }

}
print "There are $total records in $file\n";

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Use of uninitialized value at test.pl line 10.

In reply to I don't understand why I'm getting an unitialized value warning by little_mistress

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