Hi Monks,

I have a text file that looks like this:
0.000000 #need to delete this line
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ..256 elements
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 17.962402 10.630810 ..256 elements
repeats....

Question1: How can I separate every other 256 element into a new text file and leave a blank line or space between each 256 element?

Question2: How do I get rid of that pesky first line at the beginning of the text file: "0.000000 "

Here is how I started:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
open (OLD, 'old.txt');
open (NEW, '>new.txt');
while (<OLD>) {
chomp;
next unless $_ =~ /\t/ && /0.000000/;
next unless $_ !~ "F";
$_ =~ s/\t//;
print NEW ("$_\n");
}
close (OLD);
close (NEW);

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Any feedback is greatly appreciated:-)

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