Re: how to print first 5 lines of a file

Why does no-one ever use the flip-flop operator for this?

while (<>) {
  print if 1 .. 5;
}
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Re: Re: how to print first 5 lines of a file by blakem (Monsignor) on Nov 01, 2001 at 13:59 UTC
Nice, but that still loops over the entire file... I'd exit out of the loop after the fifth line like so: `while(<>) { 1 .. 5 ? print : last; }` [download] -Blake	[reply] [d/l]