I'm a bit confused. Several people have suggested you read in the file line-by-line. And now you come with sysread. It will work with sysread, but not the way you do - because if you sysread halfway in a word (so the other half will be read in the iteration), you'll count a word twice. You would need to keep track of what was at the end of the previous read, and compare that with what's at the beginning of the next read.

So, why can't you process the file line-by-line?

You also say "I need to store $buffer in an array and then process it word by word". Why, oh why? It's certainly not going to solve your out of memory error. As people have indicated, that's where the root of your problem is - trying to store everything in memory.

I suggest you either follow the given advice, or you buy some more memory, because you will need to buy more if you insist of storing the entire file in memory. And keep some cash ready, you need to buy more if your file increases.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Out of memory by Abigail-II
in thread Out of memory by Anonymous Monk

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