"Randy W. Sims" wrote:
On 1/27/2004 9:55 PM, Trina Espinoza wrote:
So this may be wishful thinking, but I would be kicking myself later if I didn't ask. Is there a function in perl where you give the function exact line numbers and it would only read the data in the range of lines you gave it? My other alternative would be using a counter to find a start line and an end line in a file. Doable but painful. Let me know if there is any hope . . .
while (<>) { if ( $start_line .. $end_line ) {
That will be true if $start_line is true and false if $start_line is false. The value in $end_line is irrelevant.
John
perl -lne 'print if 10..20' some_file
prints lines 10-20. See the perlop manpage.
Regards, Randy.
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