Hello fellow monks,

I am in the process of writing a weblog page for my website which will be driven by Perl. Currently, I have the program slurp in the weblog file (plain-text, with a record delimiter) and spit the chunks back out.

Slurping is a sin, and I wish to become enlightened. I want to rewrite the code (it's not yet live) so the weblog isn't slurped from a file. I'm considering using a 'while' loop, however, I'm not sure how I can keep track of the file. I have an "offset" modifier and a "span" modifier, which allows users to start at a point in the log and read through however many entries they requested.

Currently, I have a $count variable in the 'while' loop, and some 'if' statements which determine which entries are pulled. I am under the assumption that I can use $_ to read from <WEBLOG> and $. to get the current entry (as i would in $weblog[$currententry]).

Is this the most efficient form of reading from a file? Any suggestions?

a somewhat lost John J Reiser
newrisedesigns.com

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