Hello

I have a subroutine that loops through some data in a file until it has found the correct outcome and then stops. I simply pass a filehandle reference to the subroutine to do it.

However, I now have a new source of data that gives it to me in a smaller string. To apply the some routine I just need to split the data by \n and could pass the array reference to the subroutine.

But is there a way to write a subroutine that takes either a filehandle ref or array ref to loop through?

I am looking for a way that does not involve reading the whole file into a string (although I admit this may because I am old and started programming computers that had never heard of GB memory).

Is it possible?

In reply to Loop through array or filehandle by markdibley

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