Re: Off-topic Perl Question

2002-01-25 Thread Steven Lembark
Three methods: read newline delimeted two at a time, read the whole thing and process it in pairs of lines or read twice the size of a fixed-length line from columnar data: while(<>) { my $line = $_ . <>; ... } or my @linz = <>; for( my $i = 0 ; $i < @linz ; $i += 2 ) { my @twolinz

Off-topic Perl Question

2002-01-25 Thread ALEMU Abiy
I know that this is not the forum to ask perl questions. But is there some one who can help me on how to read two lines at a time using a Perl script My script looks like this : open(FILE_IN, "<$datafile") or die "Cannot open $datafile...\n"; while() { chomp; @fields = split(/;/