"Randy W. Sims" wrote:
>
> On 1/27/2004 9:55 PM, 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 . . .
>
> while (<>) {
> if ( $start_line .. $end_line ) {
That will be true if $start_line is true and false if $start_line is
false. The value in $end_line is irrelevant.
John
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