Hi Monks! I am extremely new to Perl; and need to write a script to automate following: This is my input:

Column1 Column2 Column3

2870      S11      1
574       S11      2
317       S11      3
31        S11      4
1         S11      6
1         S11      7
2925      S12      1
8         S12      5
1         S12      6
1         S12      9
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I am trying to write a perl script that prints out the lowest and highest values of Column3. But since S12 has value 1 appear more often than S11 in column3 based on the value in column1, I need the script to give me as a result the line of S12 as the lowest column3 value (2925 S12 1 ). Is there an easy way to do this? Please keep the script as simple as possible so that I can actually follow what you are doing and learn from it. Thanks for your help!

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