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From:
John W. Krahn
Date:
April 10, 2008 10:34
Subject:
Re: Best way to grab lines n thru x of a file
Jonathan Mast wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,

> I have a ~125MB file of which I want to read lines n thru n+x and write
> those into a separate file.  What is the best way to go about this?

while ( <FILE> ) {
     # read and ignore up to n
     last if $. == $n - 1;
     }

while ( <FILE> ) {
     print;
     last if $. == $n + $x;
     }



John
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