Adding best practices (Local filehandles, error checking), and efficiency to your code, and adding a zero value check as the OP requested:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $input = 'input.txt'; my $output = 'output.txt'; my $constant = 15; #number you are multiplying by my $minimum = 20; # Smallest number to multiply my $zero_replace = 666; # Replacement for zero open my $in, "<", $input or die "Could not open $input for reading:$!" +; open my $out, ">>", $output or die "Could not open $output for append: +$!"; while (<$in>){ chomp $_; $_ = $zero_replace if 0 == $_; # next if $_ < $minimum; print $out ($_ * $constant),"\n"; } close $in; close $out;

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In reply to Re^2: Multiply the numbers in a text file by NetWallah
in thread Multiply the numbers in a text file by zegoofer

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