Sean D. Rowe wrote at Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:54:49 +0200:

> Right now, to get to a certain line number, I will open the file, set a for
> loop to get a line until line number is reached, and then quit.  Is there a
> faster way?
> 
> ex:   for (my $i = 1; $i <= $LineNumber; $i++)
>       {
>               $Line = $FileHandle->getline;
>       }

I don't know whether there's a faster way,
but there's simpler way:

use Tie::File;
tie my @line, 'Tie::File', $fname;
my $nth_line = $line[$n];


Greetings,
Janek

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