Re: How to Save a variable outside of a loop

[RonW]

By declaring your variables inside the loop, they are being redeclared each time the loop executes.

If you move your declarations before the loop, it should work:

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

my $hitlength;
my $prevalence;
my $prev_l;
my $prev_p ;

while(<>){

[Calebros]

Thank you very much Ron, you saved me a lot of hair pulling!