Best way to skip a header when reading in from a text file in Perl?

Question

I\'m grabbing a few columns from a tab delineated file in Perl. The first line of the file is completely different from the other lines, so I\'d like to skip that line as fast a

Answer 1

Using splice seems to be the easiest and cleanest way to me:

open FILE, "<$ARGV[0]";
my @file = ;
splice(@file, 0, 1);

Done. Now your @file array doesn't have the first line anymore.