the quick brown fox jumped over the unfortunate dog #### #! perl use strict; use warnings; use Tie::File; my $filename = 'data.txt'; tie my @lines, 'Tie::File', $filename or die "Cannot tie file '$filename': $!"; chomp(my @text = @lines[3 .. 5]); print "\n", join(' ', @text), "\n"; untie @lines; #### 13:01 >perl 605_SoPW.pl fox jumped over 13:06 >