Re: better way to skip first few lines of file read?

"R" == Ruud <rvtol> writes:


R> The "for 1 .. $n" is OK, unless a very large $n would mean that precious
R> memory is wasted.

that wasteful expansion has been fixed for a while now. for will detect
that and convert it to a simple loop counter and not expand the list of
numbers if it is large.

uri

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