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The general idiom is to use a while loop to iterate over the lines in the file, reading in one line at a time and processing it, then moving on to the next.

Something like this:

open FH, "foo" or die "Can't open foo: $!"; while (<FH>) { ## current line is in $_, process it } close FH or warn "Error closing foo: $!";
Depending on your situation, you might also want to check out the -p and -n command line flags to perl (perlrun).

If these are files specified on the command line, you can use the special construct:

while (<>) { ## line is in $_ }
This might be useful in a situation like
$ process.pl foo.txt bar.txt baz.txt
to process each of the files on the command line.

In reply to Re: Large file processed line by line by btrott
in thread Large file processed line by line by sdyates2001

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