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in reply to how do I get perl to skip lines reading a text file?

To skip to the next line, after having found what you're looking for... 
open( FH, $yourfile ) or die "Can't open $yourfile: $!\n";
while( <FH> ){
  next if /pattern_indicating_line_to_skip/;
  # otherwise, do stuff...
}

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