in reply to Re^4: Read Some lines in Tera byte file
in thread Read Some lines in Tera byte file

...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?