Read Line And Selected Subsequent Lines

[sc0ri0n]

I was looking for this and I saw Perl Gurl's code in
http://www.purlgurl.net/~purlgurl/perl/file/read_1.html

I've 2 questions ...

1-) why does "$line_1 = ;" work and print the next line?

2-) Is it possible to go back and read the previous 3 lines too?

Thanks,

Pete

 

[Bob Walton]

I was looking for this and I saw Perl Gurl's code in
http://www.purlgurl.net/~purlgurl/perl/file/read_1.html

I've 2 questions ...

1-) why does "$line_1 = ;" work and print the next line?

That's because that's not what the line really says. Check out the HTML
source and see why you should ignore crap from PG (it forgot to quote
its source code when it made HTML out of it).

2-) Is it possible to go back and read the previous 3 lines too?

Sure. Check out

perldoc -f seek

and

perldoc -f tell

But why would one want to do that, when one has already read them to get
to where one is (assuming normal variable-lenght text sorts of lines) --
one could just hang on to them.


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