in reply to Dealing with nextline of a file
Here's two creative ways - slurp the whole file, then use regex lookahead to get the "next" line, or use tell() and seek() to read ahead then reset the current file position.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11135401 use warnings; open my $fh, '<', \<<END or die; line one line two line three line four line five END { local $/; local $_ = <$fh>; while( /^(.*)\n(?=(.*))/gm ) { print "$1 -> $2\n"; } } print "\n"; seek $fh, 0, 0; # reset for different example while( <$fh> ) { chomp; my $pos = tell $fh; print"$_ -> ", (<$fh> // "AT LAST LINE\n"); seek $fh, $pos, 0; }
Outputs:
line one -> line two line two -> line three line three -> line four line four -> line five line five -> line one -> line two line two -> line three line three -> line four line four -> line five line five -> AT LAST LINE
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