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A slightly modification of your code will avoid memory-problems with big files an rise performance. It's not necessary to put the whole file into an array.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

open (FOO, "test") ||
    die "ERROR Unable to open test: $!\n";

my $last;
my $first = <FOO>;

while (<FOO>) { $last = $_ }
close FOO;

print "\$first: $first";
print "\$last: $last";
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But in this case i would prefer head and tail if available

head -1 test;tail -1 test
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In reply to Re: Capturing the first and last line of a file ? by tos
in thread Capturing the first and last line of a file ? by Anonymous Monk

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