Flattext database

britney has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Flattext database by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 07, 2002 at 17:05 UTC
Frankly, your question doesn't make sense. What table header are you talking about? It's typical that if you have a plain text file, and you want to read line 800, you have to go there. That's because it's a plain text file. But plain text files don't have tables, let alone table headers. Abigail	[reply]
Re: Flattext database by talexb (Chancellor) on Jun 10, 2002 at 14:38 UTC
Try rephrasing your question in the context of Perl. If you have a text file of 800 lines with a header that makes up the top three lines -- and you want to paginate the 800 line file so that the header appears every `n` lines, we can help you with that. You haven't given us enough to work with -- which would explain the negative position of your post. Reply with more information and we can offer you alternatives. --t. alex "Nyahhh (munch, munch) What's up, Doc?" --Bugs Bunny	[reply] [d/l]