Looking at the comment inside the code, all you want is a one-liner ...

$ perl -wne'5 .. 10 and print' file

Or in your script, more verbose

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

sub usage
{
    my $err = shift and select STDERR;
    print "usage: extract.pl firstline lastline filename\n";
    exit $err;
    } # usage

use Getopt::Long qw(:config bundling nopermute);
GetOptions (
    "help|?" => sub { usage (0); },
    ) or usage (1);

my ($start, $stop, $file) = @ARGV;
-s $file && $start =~ m/^[0-9]+$/ && $stop =~ m/^[0-9]+$/ && $start <=
+ $stop or usage (1);

open my $fh, "<", $file;
while (<$fh>) {
    $. >= $start && $. <= $stop and print "$.: $_";
    }
close $fh;

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Doing this on that code:

$ perl extract.pl 5 8 extract.pl
5: use autodie;
6:
7: sub usage
8: {
$

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Yeah, way to complex

$ perl -wne'5..8 and print' extract.pl
use autodie;

sub usage
{
$

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Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re: print and extract the line by Tux
in thread print and extract the line by vis1982

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