Hey PerlMonks,

I keep running into a issue while trying to run the below script. I'm pretty sure its just a formatting issue, but I can't for the life of me figure out what is wrong with the script. I am beginner at perl so any advice and help is welcome.

I am trying to open my file, pull out all lines containing a string, then parse the pulled out string via the split command. Here is the code, in a simplified form: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#
# This script matches deliminating events in the RAN task, then pulls 
+out the Time of those 
# events. This script also pulls out the reaction time for each "respo
+nse" event.

open RAN, "f03_20859_04aug08RANmri_block2.log"
   or die "Unable to open file!" ;
open NEW, ">>Out.txt"
   or die "Unable to open file for output!" ; 
open AVG, "Avg.txt"
   or die "Unable to open file for averaging!"
while (my $text = <RAN>) {
    if ($text =~/\bResponse\b/) {    
    @response = split (/\s/, $text) ;
        print NEW $text,"\n" ;
        }
        print AVG $response[4] ;
    }
close NEW
close RAN
close AVG

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In reply to Issue splitting in while Loop by savem

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