Re^9: Offset Reading - two files

[BrowserUk]

You are still trying to use the readonly variables $1 & $2, hence the error message.

I suggest that you learn simple Perl, before you try to do complicated things with it. If you do not have enough time to learn, employ someone to do it for you.

[gio001]

Thanks so much. I got this to work. <p>perl -sple 'BEGIN{open BIG};($offse,$recl)=split;seek(BIG,$offse,0);read(BIG,$_,$recl)' -- -BIG=datain index.dat >out </p> Thanks for the support. I promise I will put more time in learning the basics before bothering you again. Bye