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in reply to Re: Question about reading specific line in a text file
in thread Question about reading specific line in a text file

Actually, you only need one control statement if you know exactly the line number you want to process, by using $. aka $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER in English.
while (<DATAFILE3>) { $line = $_, last if $. == 76; }

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