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Thanks! I was able to get some Chatterbox help, also. I noticed that your first example used a chunk size of 65536, but this example is using a chunk size of 4096. I used 65536 in my script, and it ran very quickly. Is there a reason to use something other than 65536 for $/ ? What are the considerations?

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Re^7: hang caused by read / readline?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 04, 2009 at 19:07 UTC

    Benchmark to see what works best for your data. I made up both numbers. (Perl does 4k reads internally.)

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      Thanks to you (and to the Chatterbox users) for your help!
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