On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Richard Lee <rich.japh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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
> }
snip
Unless you are storing the lines you are reading this will only read
one line at a time. You should also use the new (eight year old)
style lexical filehandles and the three argument version of open:
open my $source, "<", "/tmp/file"
or die "could not open /tmp/file: $!";
while (my $line = <$source>) {
#do stuff with $line
}
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Chas. Owens
wonkden.net
The most im****tant skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.
