In article <000f01c28d8e$ed4e4f80$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tin-Shan Chau) writes:
>--Boundary_(ID_G2riuUEo9lO985lfAtLnbg)
>Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
>
>Can anyone point me to an example of how to use the above module?
use Search::Dict;
open my $fh, "/usr/dict/words" or die $!;
my $lookfor = shift;
look $fh, $lookfor;
print "Found: " . <$fh>;
close $fh;
% ./example perl
Found: permalloy
>Some of my questions are:
>
>1. How should the input file be opened (as a text file or binary)?
Text.
>2. Do all lines have to have the same length?
No.
>3. Once I get the return line position (if I get that far), how do I retrieve the
>line?
<FILEHANDLE>
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Peter Scott
http://www.perldebugged.com
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