Got an even better one: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

my $file    =    "../data/foo.txt";

my @lines    =    getFileSlice($file,"10","1");

print join "", @lines;
print "\n";


sub getFileSlice() {
    my $file    =    shift;
    my $length    =    shift;
    my $offset    =    shift;
    my @lines;

    open FILE, "../data/foo.txt";
        for($i=0;$i<$offset;$i++) { <FILE> }
        for($i=0;$i<$length;$i++) { 
            my $line    =    <FILE>;
            push @lines, $line;
        }
    close FILE;
    
    return @lines;
}

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-Matthew

In reply to Re: Re: Reading multiple lines? by matthew
in thread Reading multiple lines? by rdw

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