go backward one line in a file

[eve25]

Hi folks,

I there anyway in a file to go to the previous line easily? I made a fct looking for one line ans returning all the text before that line, but after I want to start again from this line and if a call $line=<FILE> it gives me the following one.. I know that seek is a possibility but it is a byte lenght as limit... that is how I did, but in case the number of bytes change...

So any help would be sincerely appreciated!
Thanks

 

[PaulTEG]

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--Paul

 

[mikevh]

Your post is a bit cryptic, but if you're trying to do what I think (?) you are, have you considered reading your file into an array, and then using array index to access the line you want? Will this work for you?

 

[icrf]

Sounds like a non-native English speaker. Look at File::Readbackward on cpan.org.

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Andrew - Perl Monkey

 

[eve25]

Hi,
yes I am a french girl lost in Califoirnia...lol
the array stuff is not ok for me cause sometimes I have to take lines and some other time to split value on many lines... well, just thinking maybe I can concatenate the lines when I need more. I ll check also the package Andrew spoke about.

thanks guys and sorry if I it was not clear!
bye, have a good day