use warnings;
use strict;

open (EMPLOYEES,"employees.txt") or die "Tough: $!\n\n";
while ($line = <EMPLOYEES>) {
  chomp $line;
    ($name,$department, $salary) = split /\t/, $line;

print "n=$name\n"
print "d=$department\n"
print "s=$salary\n"

    next unless$name =~ /^Mr /;
    next unless$salary > 25000;
    next unless$department eq $ARGV[0];

    $name =~ s/Mr//;
    print"$name\n";
}
close (EMPLOYEES);

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The command line i used was ./employee HR. This is the whole script and there are no parameters at the start. These are the errors i am getting; 

./employee.pl: line 1: use: command not found
./employee.pl: line 2: use: command not found
./employee.pl: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `EMPLOYEES,"
+employees.txt"'
./employee.pl: line 5: `open (EMPLOYEES,"employees.txt") or die "Tough
+: $!\n\n";'

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In reply to Re^2: Reading from filehandles in a loop and matching lines by Nathan_84
in thread Reading from filehandles in a loop and matching lines by Nathan_84

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