Concernant:Re: [MacPerl] Counting the number of lines in a document

["jose.stephane@uqam.ca" <Stephane.Jose@uqam.ca>]

At 15:12 26/04/96, Jim Flanagan wrote:

>   Even lighter weight is:
>
>     while (<>) {}
>
>   After which the variable $. will contain the value you seek.

Hello,

Is it possible to read a particular line number from a file? If you
already know which line contains the value you are looking for it must be
faster to return directly that line instead of cycling through the file
until there's a match.

How can I implement something like '$myline = line 8 of MYFILE' in proper perl?

I'd like to avoid loading the whole file into an array since the file I am
using can be very large.

Thanks for any help.
Stˇphane

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