When I then try to read using $line=<FILE>, I am able to read the next line following the line I actually want...
Do the tell() before you read the line. Otherwise, as you've noticed, you're one line too late.
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I did exactly that...but even then when I initiate the $line=<file> command somehow, the cursor is moving to the next line...
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As a complete guess, I beting that you are forgetting that we think of the first line of a file as being line 1, but thatthe first element of an array is (in the absence of deprecated useage) line 0 (zero).
In other words, if you want to read line 30 of the file, you almost certainly need to do
tell FH, $lines[29], 0; $line = <FH>;
Another possibility is that you are forgetting to set $lines[0] = 0; and are instead doing
my @lines; ## This should be my @lines = 0;
while( <FH> ) {
push @lines, seek FH;
...
}
Unless you push a 0 onto @lines, your first index position will be the start of line 2 instead of the start of line 1 and this will mean all your indexes are out-by-one from then on.
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