I found this in O'rielly's Perl Cookbook. Could Someone let me know if it
illegal to copy like this. Hope this helps:
# looking for line number $DESIRED_LINE_NUMBER
$. = 0;
do { $LINE = } until $. == $DESIRED_LINE_NUMBER || eof;
If you are going to be doing this a lot and the file fits into m
On Oct 23, Shannon Murdoch said:
>I've been using the while(){ command, but it's not very helpful
>when I need something on line #15 or something.
>
>Is there any function like $linecontents = line(FILEHANDLE,15); ?
Make your own. The concept uses a positional hash. The hash looks like
this
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Shannon Murdoch wrote:
> I am wondering if there is any way that I can take the contents of a
> specific text file line number (I suppose it could be called a paragraph,
> since a line is considered ended by a CR/LF and may contain multiple
> sentences) and put them in to a v
re 4 IS
the line number (not line 5).
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Valenti)
> Newsgroups: perl.beginners
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:03:20 +0200
> To: Shannon Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Text file line input referencing
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I think thath be very simply use a counter.
Walter
> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering if there is any way that I can take the contents of a
> specific text file line number (I suppose it could be called a paragraph,
> since a line is considered ended by a CR/LF and may contain multiple
> sentences
Hi all,
I am wondering if there is any way that I can take the contents of a
specific text file line number (I suppose it could be called a paragraph,
since a line is considered ended by a CR/LF and may contain multiple
sentences) and put them in to a variable for manipulation.
I've been using t
