on Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:16:59 GMT, Bo Mangor wrote:

> I have a file input where I split the file into an array and that works
> fine, but there is some "spam" in the beginning of the file I want to
> get rid of - the problem is that I never know how many lines there is
> with this "spam"!
> 
> Therefore I want to make a check that excludes all lines there doesn't
> start with a number 
> [...]
> How do I make this check In Perl?

    #! perl -w
    use strict;

    while (<DATA>) {
        last if /^\d+/;
    }

    do {
        print; # or do something else with $_
    } while (<DATA>);
 
    __DATA__
    spam spam spam
    more spam
    1 no spam
    2 no spam either 
    25455487 and this neither

-- 
felix

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