Aloha, I am trying to iterate through a simple array of 5 lines (read from a text file). I know the array always starts with 0. So when using the for each loop it skips 0. Why? This makes it leave out the first line, I only get 4 lines. I need to use PERL more often! I use BBEdit. I just opened my names.txt in Firefox also confirming 5 names. and added print scalar of @data. 
foreach $name (@data) {
    print "$name";
}

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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my @data;
my $name;
open (JOE, "</Users/mrg/Desktop/names.txt") or die "No can!";
while (<JOE>) {
@data = <JOE>;
}
foreach $name (@data) {
    print "$name";
}

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This is names.txt 
Joseph.Guillaume
Fred.Flintsone
Barney.Rubble
George.Jetson
ElRoy.Jetson

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This is the Ouput: 
Last login: Wed Jul 23 13:44:11 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
G4-2:~ mrg$ /var/tmp/folders.507/Cleanup\ At\ Startup/test-238549606.0
+74.pl.command; exit
Fred.Flintsone
Barney.Rubble
George.Jetson
ElRoy.Jetsonlogout
[Process completed]

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Problem solved! by injunjoe Mahalo (Thank You)

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