Re: Printing line "x" in a file

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Andrew Conner wrote: > I have a script where I need to get the text from line number "$line" in > file "$filename" then save it to a var ($text) and then print it. For > example, in the file lamb.txt (just an example file): > "Mary was > a little lamb, whose > fleece > was as > white as snow." > I need to get line number 3 ("fleece") and print it ("print $text"). > How would I go about this? fopen() the file and call fgets() three times. The return from the third fgets call will contain the third line (including the terminating newline, so strip() it if you don't want that). miguel