Re: [MacPerl] Search::Dict?

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 08.36 -0500 1999.02.12, Richard Gordon wrote:
>Okay, but doesn't this necessarily mean that the last line read has to be the
>one that I'm after? Otherwise, how does it know what the position is?

You normally don't need to know the position.

  look(*F, ...);
  $line_i_want = <F>;

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