On Sep 9, Paul Kraus said:
>I have one question though using the while ( <$fh> )
>Works great. Is there a reason I would want to do while (read ( $fh,
>$buffer, $buffer_size)
If you want to read the optimal number of bytes at a time. In a simple
application, there's really no reason to do one over the other. If you
don't like read(), though, you can always say:
$/ = \16_384;
while (<FH>) {
# $_ is a 16,384 byte chunk
}
Setting $/ to a reference to an integer means that <FH> reads that many
bytes at a time. (Usually, $/ is a string that tells Perl when to stop
reading a "line" -- its default value is "\n".)
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