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Re: [MacPerl] Only read the first 30 lines of a file?

To: chilton@tca.net (Chilton Webb)
Subject: Re: [MacPerl] Only read the first 30 lines of a file?
From: "Ronald J. Kimball" <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:50:09 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: macperl@macperl.org
In-Reply-To: <199904222254.RAA16073@newman.myriad.net> from "Chilton Webb" at Apr 22, 99 05:54:41 pm

Chilton Webb wrote:
> 
> In MacPerl, what's a good way to read only the first 30 lines of a file? 
> I have a program that looks for certain info in several thousand files, 
> and these files are hundreds of k long. The info, however, is typically 
> in the first 10 or 20 lines. How can I do this?
> 

Count each line as you read it in.  Stop when you reach 30.

Ronald

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