reading lines from a file

eidalina20

hello everyone,
i am brand new to rexx so would appreciate any help you can provide:

I am trying to read let say 10 lines after line 6 from TEST.OUTPUT and then output them on a screen
i know i can use LINEIN or something like that but i am having trouble understanding how to use it in order to read from the file.

please help

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1 9th October 22:00 eidalina20 programming Mombu User Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: US Posts: 0	reading lines from a file hello everyone, i am brand new to rexx so would appreciate any help you can provide: I am trying to read let say 10 lines after line 6 from TEST.OUTPUT and then output them on a screen i know i can use LINEIN or something like that but i am having trouble understanding how to use it in order to read from the file. please help