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.

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