Solution: Write report to file
examples/files-perl/write_report_to_file.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $total = 0; my $count = 0; my $min; my $max; my $filename = "examples/files/numbers.txt"; open(my $fh, "<", $filename) or die "Could not open '$filename'\n"; while (my $line = <$fh>) { chomp $line; $total += $line; if (not $count) { $min = $line; $max = $line; } $count++; if ($line < $min) { $min = $line; } if ($line > $max) { $max = $line; } } open my $out, '>', 'numbers.out'; if (not defined $min) { print $out "No values were given\n"; } else { printf($out "Minimum: %5s\n", $min); printf($out "Maximum: %5s\n", $max); printf($out "Total: %5s\n", $total); printf($out "Count: %5s\n", $count); printf($out "Average: %5s\n", $total / $count); }