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On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Brian Hayes wrote:
> > You should be using something like
> >
> > open(FILE, $file) or die "$!\n";
> > while(<FILE>){
> > ## do something
> > }
> > close FILE;
> > __END__
>
> This is what I am doing, but before any of the file is processed, the
> whole text file is moved into memory. The only solution I can think of
> is to break apart the text file and read thru each smaller part...but I
> would like to avoid this. I was hoping someone knew how perl interacts
> with memory and knew how to trick it into not reading the whole file at
> one time.
Can you show the code you have? The entire file shouldn't be loading into
memory before you start reading it line by line, should it?
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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