NAME File::fgets - Read either one line or X characters from a file SYNOPSIS use File::fgets; open my $fh, $file; # Read either one line or the first 10 characters, which ever comes first my $line = fgets($fh, 10); DESCRIPTION An implementation of the C fgets() function. fgets my $string = fgets($fh, $limit); Reads either one line or at most $limit bytes from the $fh. Returns undef at end of file. NOTE: unlike C's fgets, this will read $limit characters not $limit - 1. Perl doesn't have to leave room for a null byte. EXAMPLE The following example demonstrates using fgets() to read in at most 5 characters at a time. use File::fgets; open my $write_fh, ">", $file; print $write_fh <. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html Send bugs, feedback, ideas and suggestions via https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=File-fgets or The latest version of this software can be found at http://github.com/schwern/File-fgets SEE ALSO File::GetLineMaxLength