Re: next line

Are you looking for readline()?

my $line = <FH>;
$line = readline(*FH) if $line =~ /$some_regex/;
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Although this is exactly the same as doing <FH> in the given context. Maybe some code would help?
HTH

_________ broquaint

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Re: Re: next line by harry34 (Sexton) on May 16, 2002 at 13:17 UTC
how about if I just wanted to move to the next line regardless of what it contained, would I use the same sort of command ?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: next line by broquaint (Abbot) on May 16, 2002 at 13:35 UTC
Yes you would. When you assign a read from a filehandle in a scalar context the file pointer will be incremented to the next line according to the `$/` variable e.g `while(<FH>) { my $nextline = <FH>; }` [download] What happens here is that the first line of `<FH>` is assigned to `$_` and the filehandle will point to the second line. When `$nextline` is assigned the read from `<FH>` it gets the second line, and the filehandle will then point to the 3rd line, and so on and so forth. HTH `_________ broquaint`	[reply] [d/l] [select]