> I am looking at a way of reading a line doing a regex to find the
> specific line then pick out the line, sudo code would be some thing
> like the following:
>
> read in line
> check regex
>
> if regex is correct
> { jump 10 lines
> print the output
>
> }
>
> any ideas on jumping the 10 lines, how do I ignore the lines in the
> file, and know I'm going the right distance ?
>
> Thanks
> Pat
I don't know how big your file is but you can try Tie::File...it's a
core module...it works for big files, you can do regex, easy to go/
treat a particular line, etc...
http://perldoc.perl.org/Tie/File.html
my two cents,
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