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

You can just assign it a dummy variable for the 1st time:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

open my $fh, '<','a.txt' or die $!;

my $dummy=<$fh>;   #First line is read here
while(<$fh>){
        print ;
}
close($fh);