Happy-the-monk,
I do not believe either one of these approaches will work (if I understand the problem correctly). Some lines are too long to read into a single variable so it is not possible to use length to determine if a line is too long. Using Tie::File would help since it only indexes where the newlines in the file begin, but you still need to read the whole line to determine if it is too long (length $file[42] > 1024 * 1024).

I can see one way it may work though. If there is a way to get at the indices of the newlines, you would only have to subtract the 2 to determine if the line was too long.

Cheers - L~R

Update:The following is an untested proof-of-concept. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Tie::File;

my $obj = tie my @file, 'Tie::File', 'file.big' || die "Unable to tie 
+'file.big': $!";
my $big = 1024 * 1024;

for ( 0 .. $#file - 1 ) {
    my $beg = $obj->offset($_);
    my $end = $obj->offset($_ + 1);
    next if $end - $beg > $big;
    # process $file[$_];
}

# Handle last line as special case
my $beg = $obj->offset($#file);
my $end = -s 'file.big';
if ( $end - $beg <= $big ) {
    # process $file[-1];
}

#Cleanup
undef $obj;
untie @file;

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In reply to Re^2: Reading files, skipping very long lines... by Limbic~Region
in thread Reading files, skipping very long lines... by Excalibor

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