On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:49:04 -0500, Sean Sugrue wrote: > I need to be able read the first few lines of a binary test file (i.e. > .staff form).
Please define what is a line for you in a binary file. If it is just a normal line (ending on the line separator), you just can do the normal way, e.g. to read the first 5 lines: open FILE, $filename or die "Can't open $filename: $!"; my @line; push @line, scalar <FILE> for 1 .. 5; close FILE; > Does anyone know how to do this in purl. ^^^^ It's Perl, not purl !! Greetings, Janek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]