Read only part of file

[Toddy Prawiraharjo]

HI all, 

Is it possible to read only part of file in perl?

At this moment I have script similar to:

open (FH, “file");
@FH = <FH>;
foreach $line(@FH){
        processing linebyline
}
close FH;

However, I only need certain part of file only to be read (let say beginning
20 lines). Above method will be taking lot of time to read file up to 5mb in
size (.ps file), so how do I this in perl? Any module or other slick way?

So far my solution is using system call using unix’s head –n 20. 


Cheers,
 
TP
 




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