Re: pulling multiple lines from a file

2001-11-16 Thread David Wall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 16 Nov 2001: > What I want to do is scroll thru the file and when it finds the line > that starts with "NC00" print that line and the next 5 lines. Here's one way: while () { next unless /^NC00/; print; $_ = , print for 1..5; } -- David Wall [EMAIL PROTE

Re: pulling multiple lines from a file

2001-11-16 Thread register
howabout while () { next unless /^NC00/; push @required , $_; } On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 03:42:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] shaped the electrons to read: > Hello All, > This appears to be quite simple, but yet the answer has eluded me. > I can/kow how to use a foreach loop to

Re: pulling multiple lines from a file

2001-11-16 Thread Chris Garringer
One way (probably not the most elegant) set a flag variable to 0 my $flagv=0 foreach to read file { $flag=1 if (/^NC00/); if ($flag) { store line increment counter if counter >5 $flag=0 } -- Chris D. Garringer LAN/WAN Supervisor Toshiba International 713-466-0277 x