in reply to Reading nth line from a file

Methinx recipe 8.8 Reading a Particular Line in a File, from the perl Cookbook would be of use to you.

Update

Ooops, my apologies to O'Reilly ... seemingly genuine URL removed - apparently referenced an unauthorised Ukrainian website - many thanx to Narveson.

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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