Here is an excerpt of my code: 

  use Tie::File;
  ....
  my @content;
  tie @content, 'Tie::File', $filename or die "Can not read file $file
+name ($!)";
  print "First Line: $content[0]\n";
  print "Number of lines in file: $#content\n";

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I expected to see the first line of my file printed, and the number of lines in the file, but the first print statement prints the whole file, and the second print statement says Number of lines in file: 0. I guess I have misunderstood something in the description of Tie::File. What did I do wrong?
-- 
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to Can't get Tie::File working by rovf

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