Re: Reading X lines at a time

From the keyboard of Georg Moritz [03.05.04,13:34]:

> From the keyboard of Jose Alves de Castro [03.05.04,10:56]:
>
> > This has been bugging me for some time...
> >
> > What would be the easiest way to read X lines of input at a time?
> >
> > I don't really think you can use $/ for this, as it's not a regex, but a
> > string...
> >
> > However, the thought of having to use more than one line of code to do
> > this scares the hell out of me O:-)
>
> $_=<>x$n

or
@_=<>x$n
in array context
:-)

> greets,
> georg
>
>

-- 
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