in reply to skipping the first line of a file
TIMTOWTDI ,
The other suggestions thus far assume a line-by-line read of the file, if you're slurping the file in, howz about...
my ($first, @rest) = <DATA>; warn "first: $first"; warn "rest:\n@rest"; __DATA__ header line1 line2
user@unforgiven:~$ perl tst.pl first: header rest: line1 line2 user@unforgiven:~$
A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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