Hi monks,

In the following code to write the contents of a file to a specified filename, the buffer size is given as 16_384 (from this node Re: File Upload - What Next?): 

use CGI:
my $q = new CGI;

use constant BUFFER_SIZE    => 16_384;

my $filename  = $q->param( "filename" ) || die;

# Assuming $filename is sanitized...

my $fh = $q->upload( "file" );
my $buffer = '';

open(OUT,">/tmp/$filename");

binmode $fh;
binmode OUTPUT;

# Write contents to output file
while ( read( $fh, $buffer, BUFFER_SIZE ) ) {
    print OUTPUT $buffer;
}

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I've seen other numbers such as 1024 (1 kb). Is it an arbitrary number of bytes?

Thanks in advance :)

In reply to Ideal buffer size.. by kiat

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