in reply to Re^2: file size limit with Tie::File
in thread file size limit with Tie::File

alw,
"I thought I would avoid reading the entire file into memory by using this module(wrong)."

You have misquoted BrowserUk who said Tie::File must read the whole file. Tie::File works by indexing the locations of $/ (default = "\n"). To do this, it must read the whole file but as BrowserUk points out - it only reads so much into memory at a time. Other advice in this thread applies but I wanted to point out that you were inaccurate.

Update: Typo corrected thanks to BrowserUk++

Cheers - L~R

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