Note that although many of them are elegant, all the techniques posted so far will read the entire input file.

:) Path::Tiny::lines patch

use Path::Tiny  qw/ path /;
print path( 'wordlist' )->lines( { range => [ 60, 70] } );


sub Path::Tiny::lines {
    package Path::Tiny;
    my $self    = shift;
    my $args    = _get_args( shift, qw/binmode chomp count range/ );
    my $binmode = $args->{binmode};
    $binmode = ( ( caller(0) )[10] || {} )->{'open<'} unless defined $
+binmode;
    my $fh = $self->filehandle( { locked => 1 }, "<", $binmode );
    my $chomp = $args->{chomp};
    # XXX more efficient to read @lines then chomp(@lines) vs map?
 
    if( my $count = $args->{count} ){ ## count trumps/clobbes range
        $args->{range} = [ 0, $count ];
    }

    if( my @range = @{ $args->{range} || [] } ){
        my( $start, $end ) = @range;
        $start ||= 0;
        defined $end or $end = -1;
        my @result;
        local $.;
        while ( my $line = <$fh> ) {
            next if $. < $start;
            $line =~ s/(?:\x{0d}?\x{0a}|\x{0d})$// if $chomp;
            push @result, $line ;
            last if $. >= $end;
        }
        return @result;
    }
    elsif ($chomp) {
        return map { s/(?:\x{0d}?\x{0a}|\x{0d})$//; $_ } <$fh>; ## no 
+critic
    }
    else {
        return wantarray ? <$fh> : ( my $count =()= <$fh> );
    }
}
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