Im using a text file as a data base, and the file has grown to about 150 kBytes. I am unable to reach the information at the end of the file, so im guessing that perhaps i need to seek within the file before using read, (as done in C for large files).
A for loop is used to scan the <file> line by line for a certain symbol, But the search is only reaching as far as line 4300, and more lines exist after this. 
open(INF,"data.txt"); ## Open read file
@userdata = <INF>; ## Put into an array
close(INF);

$linenum=0;
foreach $line (@userdata)
{
  print "$linenum\n"; 

  if ($userdata[$linenum] =~ /¦$tail/) 
  {
    ********** Do Stuff - But currently not working is symbol beyond l
+ine 4300
  }

  $linenum++;
}

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Any ideas any1, Thanks.

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