No size is not an issue. I am writing a compare routine and the file has different sections that all need to be split up differently depending on the section to parse out the key value pairs so I can compare.
Thanks for the suggestions. On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 09:53, James Edward Gray II wrote: On Dec 30, 2003, at 10:45 AM, Eric Walker wrote: > The lines will always be defined but I need to process that previous > line. I am still kinda in the closet on what you mean. my $current = $_; # process $current here... Other choices: If file size isn't an issue, just slurp the whole think into an array and use indexing. If it is, use Tie::File. Good luck. James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>