Re: reading a particular line in a large text file

[jimbojones]

Just as a follow-up, I got that from

perldoc perlopentut

-jim

[fadingjava]

thanks for tha reply . It now creates that index file , but still does not return any lines . just print out the " Didn't find line in text " error. Any idea why??

[jimbojones]

Your data file is opened on the DVD filehandle originally. You then use *ORIG as the filehandle to the line lookup subroutine call (cut 'n' paste error from the Perl Cookbook)

[fadingjava]

thanks a lot jimbojones . You saved my life .