To get rid if the first line shoved through a file handle: 

<FH>; # FH is an already opened filehandle. You can use a variable, to
+o.

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As for question number 1: count them. There's split for splitting a string into a list, which you can stuff into an array. See push. Keep tack of the number of elements. Evaluating an array in scalar context gives you the number of elements in an array. See perldata.

Really, read all of the perl man-pages from top to bottom. Don't despair if you don't grab all things in there at first. Just read them. Things will assemble; ruminating they fall into place.

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