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in reply to Re^3: How to read every 16 line of file ?
in thread How to read every 16 line of file ?

My code reads from ARGV, not STDIN, so his comment does apply. Mind you, the OP said "file" singular, so resetting shouldn't be necessary.

See eof to reset the counter between files when using ARGV.