Re: Best way to grab lines n thru x of a file

[John W. Krahn]

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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