Rather than reading the data line by line you could slurp all of it into a single scalar string then split into per-team chunks ...

OK for small files, begging for trouble as soon as files grow beyond the amount of free RAM.

On a 32-bit perl, you simply can not have a scalar larger than 4 GBytes, because you have no more address lines. The real limit may be much less, depending on operating system and other factors. So you are limited to files smaller than that. Reading line by line allows processing Petabytes of data without running out of memory.

Even a 64-bit perl will be limited to the amount of free RAM and free swap space. Once all RAM and swap is used up and the machine has come to a grinding halt, you are lost. Again, reading line by line allows processing much more data.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^2: Unique Values within AOH by afoken
in thread Unique Values within AOH by dirtdog

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