Re (tilly) 3: Skip 21 Lines


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by tilly (Archbishop)

on Apr 25, 2001 at 05:14 UTC ( [id://75343]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Isn't it more maintainable to write that as:

$line = (<FILE>)[4];
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Re: Re (tilly) 3: Skip 21 Lines by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 25, 2001 at 06:26 UTC
I presume you're joking. That's the same problem. Read the whole file, keep the fifth element. Ugh. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re (tilly) 5: Skip 21 Lines by tilly (Archbishop) on Apr 25, 2001 at 07:02 UTC
Yes, that was a joke. But if you are going to be inefficient, at least be idiomatically inefficient. I didn't like having to count through undefs to figure out which line you were grabbing...	[reply]

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