On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Yacketta, Ronald wrote:
> need some minor help here.. been looking in the Cookbook for an example
> to pull the first line from a file..
First line? Just read from the file once and then close:
open FILE, "$filename" or die "Can't open $filename: $!\n";
my $line = <FILE>;
close FILE;
Of course, you should make sure $line actually has something in it before
trying to use it (testing for definedness).
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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