#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $string; while ( <> ) { $string .= $_; } $string =~ s/\s+//g; print length($string), "\n"; #### perl -e 'for ( 0 .. 100000000 ) { print "1234567890\n" }' > ! /scratch/100m ./evince_oddness /scratch/100m Substitution loop at ./evince_oddness line 10, <> line 100000001