Hello, what you do seems right, but could do with some improvement. Consider not asigning the line you want to skip to anything. And if you want to skip a arbitrary number of lines you can use a foreach loop.

open (file.....)
while (<FILE>) {
   if /blah/ {
       <FILE>;   # Skip one line
       <FILE> foreach(1..$skip); # Skip a numer of lines
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