Pablo Fischer wrote at Tue, 05 Aug 2003 15:43:19 +0000:
> Reading all these message about reading a 'big' file (I know that 180MB its
> not a big file), but what's the difference from reading like this:
>
> @file = <FILE>;
That reads all lines of a file into the @file array.
That means, at least all the amount of the file size is now needed in RAM.
> foreach (@file) {
> print $_;
> }
>
> and with a While?
With a while loop, the program reads line by line,
thus only about the line length size is allocated by the program in RAM.
Greetings,
Janek
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