Hi,
Is it possible to read a particular line by line number ?
For e.g reading line 3 from a file.
I don't want to read each line and count.
Thanks
Alok
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On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 17:12 +0530, Nath, Alok (STSD) wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to read a particular line by line number ?
For e.g reading line 3 from a file.
I don't want to read each line and count.
No and yes. If it is genuine new random data then no.
If it is fixed
On Jun 20, 7:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alok Nath) wrote:
Is it possible to read a particular line by line number ?
For e.g reading line 3 from a file.
I don't want to read each line and count.
You don't have to count. Perl counts for you. The current line number
is
On 20 Jun, 16:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alok Nath) wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to read a particular line by line number ?
For e.g reading line 3 from a file.
I don't want to read each line and count.
Thanks
Alok
You can do below to print the 3rd line.
open FILE, ./xyz
But that still reads the entire file to that point,
You can use seek if you know the number of chars on a line.
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On 06/20/2007 06:42 AM, Nath, Alok (STSD) wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to read a particular line by line number ?
For e.g reading line 3 from a file.
I don't want to read each line and count.
Thanks
Alok
The module Tie::File makes this easy. However, you should
