Sorry I am not running it from the command line the <> operator is there but it can be replaced I am looking for a better way to parse the file; here is what I have on top of the code I send. It have to display to the browser.

my $start = $getdata;
my $end = $getdata2;

my $dir = '../weblog/';
@ARGV = ();

die "start must be less than end" if $start >= $end;
die "no dir $dir here" unless -d $dir;

find sub {
my $numb = (fileparse($_,'.txt'))[0];
return unless $numb =~ /^\d+$/;
push @ARGV, $File::Find::name if $numb >= $start and $numb <= $end; }, $dir;
die "no .txt files found in $dir" unless @ARGV;

In reply to Re: Re: parsing long text file by Anonymous Monk
in thread parsing long text file by Anonymous Monk

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