On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:50:51AM -0500, Yacketta, Ronald wrote:
:
:Folks,
:
:need some minor help here.. been looking in the Cookbook for an example
:to pull the first line from a file..

  open FILE, "filename" or die $!;
  my $line = <FILE>;
  close FILE;

Remember, <FILEHANDLE> is something you can iterate over.  In scalar
context it returns just one line (for all intents and purposes) at a
time.

  Casey West

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