Richard Lee wrote:
> I am trying to open a big file and go through line by line while
> limiting the resource on the system.
> What is the best way to do it?
>
> Does below read the entire file and store them in memory(not good if
> that's the case)..
>
> open(SOURCE, "/tmp/file") || die "not there: $!\n";
> while (<SOURCE>) {
> ## do something
> }
>
> sometime ago I saw somewhere it had something like below which look
> like it was reading them and going through line by line without
> storing them all in memory.
> I just cannot remember the syntax exactly.
>
> open(SOURCE, " /tmp/file |") || die "not there: $!\n";
> while (<>) {
> ## do something
>
> }
>
>
reposting without php-generals lists.. cc'd them by mistake.
