Hello all,

I have been reading up on IO::File and I wanted to see if anyone could post or point me towards an example of a program that uses IO::File to split a large file into several smaller files with a set number of lines each.

For example lets say my original file $file has 3200 lines in it. I want to use IO::File to make four new files (titled $file1, $file2, $file3, $file4) and write them in my current directory.

What I have figured out from docs so far: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w 

use strict;
use IO::File;

#Open and read In File

open(IN, '/myfiles/test/file')||die "Can not open '/myfiles/test/file'
+ :$!\n"
while(<IN>){
};
close (IN);

#Open file for writing

open(OUT, '>', $file)||die "Can not open $file :$!\n";
print OUT "...800Lines of output...";
close(OUT);

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As always, thank you for your time and help.

-mox

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