You stated that the lines are separated by "|". But the rest of your narrative implies that you meant that the fields of each line are separated by "|". So I am assuming the latter: 
use strict;

my ($begline, $endline);
open DATA, "<indb.txt";
my @lines = <DATA>;
chomp @lines;

foreach ($begline..$endline) {
   my ($var1, $var2, $var3) = split '\|', $lines[$_];
   print "$var1 $var2 $var3\n";
   # do whatever
}

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If this isn't what you meant, please clarify.

Update: Of course you need to initialize $begline, $endline as needed. Also, keep in mind that @lines begins with an index of zero, not one. 

@a=split??,'just lose the ego and get involved!';
for(split??,'afqtw{|~'){print $a[ord($_)-97]}

In reply to Re: How do I extract (x) number of lines from database? by jlongino
in thread How do I extract (x) number of lines from database? by Mosley

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