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Re: Skip 21 Lines

by satchboost (Scribe)
on Apr 24, 2001 at 22:39 UTC ( [id://75194]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Skip 21 Lines

Ummm .... why not use seek? Something like:
open MY_FILE, $filename;
seek MY_FILE, 21, 0;
while (<MY_FILE) {
... do reading schtuff here ...
}

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That way, you go right to where you want to go. No silly while loops or anything like that.

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Re: Re: Skip 21 Lines
by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 24, 2001 at 22:40 UTC
[reply]
      whoops. I'm a dunce! That'll teach me to think I can see something easy that 4 monks before me didn't.
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