On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Trina Espinoza wrote: > So this may be wishful thinking, but I would be kicking myself later if I didn't > ask. Is there a function in perl where you give > the function exact line numbers and it would only read the data in the range of > lines you gave it? My other alternative would be > using a counter to find a start line and an end line in a file. Doable but painful. > Let me know if there is any hope . . .
Possibly you are thinking of using an array ? @lines=<FILE>; $Line_Wanted=$lines[Wanted_File_Number]; That means you put the file in an array, then read an array element, that being the line number you want. Remember arrays start at 0; If you have very large files, you might have to use another strategy. You might also whant to look at the $. variable Owen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
