in reply to move down 2 lines in file?

I would just do something like: open FILE, "<", "try.dt" or die $!; while (<FILE>) { next if $. < 2; print $_; } And not think twice about it; is there something wrong with that?

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Re^2: move down 2 lines in file?
by b17m4p (Initiate) on Jul 12, 2008 at 05:29 UTC
    Sorry new here 
    open FILE, "<", "try.dt" or die $!;
while (<FILE>) {
    next if $. <= 2;
    print $_;
}

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