Oh wise monks, I appeal to thee.

This is my task. I often receive a stack of CD-ROMs from clients with several files on them. The files all make up a single dataset, but they are always split into multiple files (my guess is that there is some sort of limitation on the export tools from their database system).

Anyway, what I have been doing is cat'ing the files all into a single massive file (often between 2 and 8 gig). This is all well and good, but i would rather be able to just simply access the entire set as a single file. I have used Tie::File for array-based access on single files, but is there any perl-ish way to treat file1.txt, file2.txt, ... fileN.txt as a single file for the purposes of tying?

Many thanks!

In reply to tie multiple files to a single array? by Anonymous Monk

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