There's a simpler way, if you specify the file from the command line (as in
script.pl file) you can do
while (<>) {
last if /search test/;
#do something
}
in fact, you can make a cat-like script like this:
while (<>) {
print;
}
<> is the diamond operator, and it's the filehandle for standard input (be
it keyboard, pipe or file).
Hernan Freschi
"Jon Serra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].;
> Greetings, I am trying to read a text file into a scalar variable line by
line
> until EOF or a search test if fullfilled. I have been reading files in
like
> this:
>
> chomp (@line = `cat filename`);
>
> I do not want to do this beacuse my file is quite large, and there is no
reason
> to hog the memory for the little bit I actually want, and second, I do not
want
> to make a system call to the unix cat command. TIA Jon
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