I have some problems to skip a header (with variable lines) of my data. The line I want to start reading begins always with "Parameter". Does anybody has an idea how to handle the data without the header? I tried like following: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $dest_dir = "/home/test/";
my @data = "";
my $filename = "$dest_dir/test.txt";
my @lines = "";

open(INPUT,'<'.$filename ) || die "can't open $filename \n" ;

@data=<INPUT>;

#here I try to skip the header and print it into "@data" 

while( my $line = <@data> ) {
next unless /Parameter/;
print <@data> $line,"\n";
}

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thanks

In reply to skip lines by halligalli

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