[sdlan75]

Hi Guy,
Sorry for confusing and I am new to Perl scripting and I am writing a script to read a file which has the employee info, here is the table

FullName
Lisa Tom
Peter Jackson

I wan be able to read only both names.

thx

[Laurent_R]

This is a cross post of the Perl Gurus forum. Please refer to it for better programming practices.

The requirement is slightly clearer here than on the Perl Gurus forum, but I still don't know clearly what you really want to print.

Looking at your command line, I doubt that this prints anything, because "-n" cannot be equal to "n".

Also, at ther very least, change:

!/usr/bin/perl

to something like

#!/usr/bin/perl

Otherwise, it won't even compile.

Having made all the necessary corrections, the program should print the first word of each line.