in reply to Re: Re: Skip 21 Lines
in thread Skip 21 Lines

Nice use of an obscure variable (the obfuscator in me salutes you), but you'd better hope that the file is at least 22 lines long, or you'll be waiting quite a while for your data :-) 
   MeowChow                                   
               s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Skip 21 Lines
by turnstep (Parson) on Apr 25, 2001 at 17:56 UTC
    Point taken (although I don't think of $. as particularly obscure.) Slight modification: 
    1 while <DATA> and $. < 21;

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