Re: How can I process large files with while(<>)?

How about this ...

open( HANDLE, "list.txt" ) or die "Cannot open file - $!";
while( <HANDLE> ) {

    #   Process file line by line here 

}
close HANDLE;
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The while(<>) structure iterates through the magic ARGV handle, line by line, where each line is defined as ending by the input record separator, $/. In the example above, the filehandle, HANDLE is specified to be iterated through in this manner thereby performing the task of reading through a large file without storing it all in an array first.

perl -e 'print+unpack("N",pack("B32","00000000000000000000000111100011")),"\n"'

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Re: Re: How can I process large files with while(<>)? by Ritter (Sexton) on Nov 17, 2002 at 10:09 UTC
Working perfectly! thanks! Ritter	[reply]