[ale] OT: Perl and VERY large files

attriel attriel at d20boards.net
Thu Aug 7 12:54:57 EDT 2003


> Is it practical to code where you read from stdin instead of opening the
> file?  If it's a problem with "open", that might get around it...(since
> all you're doing is linear reads).  If not, I'd ask on perlmonks.org.

Yah, having seen the code, I'm not seeing anything jumping out at me :/

My only other suggestion is to change it to open(FILE, "cat filename |");
so it's coming through a pipe; I think that'd hide the file size from
whoever's actually issuing the complaint (unless it's at a level that cat
dislikes it, too, of course)

Sorry :/

--attriel
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