Once I encountered a problem concerning an exported peagasus mailfile. It was several hundreds of megabytes big. My oportunity was to split it into parts, each containing exactly one mail. As the file had a nice seperator, it seemed quite easy to me - but the first attempt blew up my memory. This was the first time I came to use the $_ variable instead of an own:
open(FH,"<$source") || die "cant open $source: $!\n";

while (<FH>){

    push @file, $_;

    if ($_ =~ /^-- End --/) {
        $zaehler++;

        open(GUN,">$destiny") || die "can write to $destinyfile$zaehle
+r:$!";

        foreach $zeile (@file) {

            print GUN $zeile;

        }#endforeach

        undef @file;

        close(GUN);

        print "$zaehler:\n";

    }#endif

}#endwhile

close(FH);

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killerhippy

Edit ar0n -- 2001-07-24 fixed excessive whitespace

In reply to Re: Re: Data length in strings by khippy
in thread Data length in strings by Anonymous Monk

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