> "McCollum, Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I'm a beginner too, given, but alternatively, you could unshift the lines
> into an array and just check the last variable. This would allow you to
> reference the other lines later if there was more work to be done here.
Something like this while loop fragment is a simple way to approach the problem:
my $last_line = "";
while (<FILE>) {
$last_line = $_;
}
$last_line will then hold the last line of the file with the trailing
line terminator. You can chomp it off, if it is unneeded.
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Smoot Carl-Mitchell
Consultant
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