Re^4: Read Some lines in Tera byte file

Tie::File remembers the position of the lines it has encountered. Not problem if you want to read lines 100 to 200.

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Re^5: Read Some lines in Tera byte file by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 13, 2010 at 16:24 UTC
...just be sure not to reference `$#array` or `scalar @array`, otherwise you have to wait for the whole file to have been shuffled through memory. Consuming 1.5GB of ram in the process on my 40e6 line, 3.6GB file. On a Terabyte size file?	[reply] [d/l] [select]