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From:
Brian Hayes
Date:
February 7, 2002 13:49
Subject:
Re: memory issues reading large files
Message ID:
20020207135142.A2617@redhouse.ucsc.edu
It appears the problem was using the foreach statement instead of while.
I have not tested this extensively, but using foreach the whole text
file (or output of pipe) is read into memory before continuing, but
using while (and probably for) each line is processed as it is read.  

Thanks for all your help,
Brian
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