in reply to processing huge files

What happens with the data inside the while loop? The memory hog must be somewhere there. Are you storing $line or @fields in another data structure?

Please show us a small complete program that demonstrates your problem.

Paul

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Re^2: processing huge files
by geektron (Curate) on Aug 02, 2005 at 14:03 UTC
    per your request, the loop is added to the node.
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