#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my $maxline = 5; open my $info, "testlog" or die "Could not open $!"; my $start = 2; my $count = 0; while( my $line = <$info>) { next if $count < $start; print $line; last if ++$count == $maxline; print "$count \n"; }