dear monks,

I have a log file. I am not interested in reading all the lines of a log file. I am only interested in reading a specific lines of a file using line number. For example, If I would like to read only line numbers 6,1003,2965 from the log file, what is the best way I can write a code for this.
right now I am reading the whole file into an array and from the array I read the file. 

my @log_file_contents = <FH>;
map { $_ =~ s/[\r\n]//g' } @log_file_contents;
print "$log_file_contents[6]\n";
print "$log_file_contents[1003]\n";
print "$log_file_contents[2965]\n";

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Is there any better solution for this ?

In reply to reading the file using the line number by greatshots

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