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in reply to Re^3: How to read every 16 line of file ?
in thread How to read every 16 line of file ?


This is my sample code to be execute but this is sample only..
#!/usr/bin/perl -w open (FILE, "/tmp/test.txt"); while ($line = <FILE>) { ... READ EVERY 16 LINE... } close(FILE);

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Re^5: How to read every 16 line of file ?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 13, 2011 at 06:29 UTC
    You can't "read every 16th line", you can "do something with every 16th line", and I showed how already. Just replace "say" with whatever you want to do to the selected lines.