While loop, how to read from second line of text file

Question

i\'ve tried everything for the past 2 hours to get this working but my experience in shell and programming is limited.

I have a loop

while IFS=\",\"          


        

Answer 1

Use sed to "delete" the first line from the input passed to the while loop

sed 1d $file | while ...
do
         your statements here
done

Answer 2

A solution using awk:

awk 'NR >= 2 { print }' < "$file"