#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; open(FH,"$ARGV[0]") or die; my @temp=; close FH; my $quadratic = quadratic (\@temp); print "$quadratic\n"; sub quadratic { my ($a, $b, $c) = @_; return (-$b + sqrt($b*$b - 4*$a * $c)) / 2*$a; }