BrowserUk, thanks... Two questions/comments regarding your post.

Wouldn't your code mean the lines are stripped of the line feeds they originally had? ie: When you came to write the array out it would not longer have the line feeds and you'd have to add them into every line?

The area I'm looking at is where I'm posting a new message in a forum, which reads the forum in, manipulated the lines and then writes it back out. So this code is not used for general browsing, just when updating.


I'll have a play with your example and see what the outcome is... You recon it reads it in one(ish) hit and not in horrible 4K blocks?

In reply to Re^2: Perl always reads in 4K chunks and writes in 1K chunks... Loads of IO! by NeilF
in thread Perl always reads in 4K chunks and writes in 1K chunks... Loads of IO! by NeilF

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