On Jul 18, 6:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ayesha) wrote: > Hi all > > I got started on Perl only today! > I have a text file in which I need to read a line and the line after > that. Like > > line1 and line2 > line2 and line3 > line3 and line4 > > when I use while($line1 = <MYFILE>){ > $line = <MYFILE>; > } > > I get output > line1 and line2 > line3 and line4 ..etc. I guess everytime I read a line, it increases > the counter and reads the next line. I tried playing with the $. > variable, but it did not help. > > Any suggestions here will be very helpful > > thanks > Ayesha
Hello Ayesha, This code will do the work.It works for me at least.. #!/usr/bin/perl -w $file="mini.txt"; open(FH,"<$file") || die "unable to open file"; while ($line=<FH>) { print"$line"; } close(FH); -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/