Re: reading file into an array

in reply to reading file into an array

for(my $x=14; $x<@fileContents; $x++)
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Array indexes in Perl begin with zero, so that's actually going to start at line 15.

Also, a more perlish way of initiating that loop would be:

for (13 .. $#fileContents) {
    print "$fileContents[$_]\n";    # Or whatever
}
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However, a much better way to process a file line by line is with a while loop. Something like this:

my $lines_to_skip = 14;

while (my $line = <$file>) {
    # $. will give you the current line number of the file
    next if ($. <= $lines_to_skip);  
    chomp($line);
    # Do stuff with $line
}
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Hope this helps,
Darren :)

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