Hello Monks,
I'm struggling with something that I think is pretty simple, but I haven't been able to work it out and I'm hoping you all can lend a hand.
I have a Tab Delimited file similar to the following: 

10    alpha
30    bravo
60    charlie
100    delta
500    echo
600    foxtrot
4    golf
22    hotel
900    igloo
800    juliet
999    kilo

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What I need to be able to do is count those values in the first column that meet certain criteria such as >600,>1000, etc. So, using the data above, if I wanted to count those values that are > 600, I want a total result of "3".
I am able to read the file and parse the data with the following code but the count that I am using doesn't give me the total "3". Rather, it outputs:
1
1
1

Again, I think I am just missing something basic here - so, any suggestions would be appreciated. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

#open and read, the file
my $file = shift @ARGV;
open (FILE1, "<", $file) or die "Can't open '$file': $!";
    
while (<FILE1>) 
{
chomp $_;
my($perfNum,$alphaVal) = split("\t", $_);
#print "$perfNum\n";
        
my$gt600ms=0;
if($perfNum > 600)
  {
  $gt600ms++;
  print "$gt600ms\n";
  }
}
close (FILE1);

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In reply to Getting the right count by dukea2006

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