in reply to reading a particular line in a large text file

Just as a follow-up, I got that from
perldoc perlopentut
-jim

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Re^2: reading a particular line in a large text file
by fadingjava (Acolyte) on Oct 15, 2004 at 22:28 UTC
    thanks for tha reply . It now creates that index file , but still does not return any lines . just print out the " Didn't find line in text " error. Any idea why??
      Your data file is opened on the DVD filehandle originally. You then use *ORIG as the filehandle to the line lookup subroutine call (cut 'n' paste error from the Perl Cookbook)

        thanks a lot jimbojones . You saved my life .