Re^3: reading from a huge file

Thanks, that's helpful. Perl wasn't even on this server when this all started, so I've no idea what the systems guys even put on it. As I said in the original message, I don't actually have access to the box myself, which is frustrating matters.

For what it's worth, the error that the person running the script reported to me in email was: Unable to open input file UDB_sessions01252011

That leads me to believe that the code is failing at this point:

## Open input file
open(INFILE, "$infile") || die "unable to open input file $infile\n";
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The code as written is pretty darn elementary. I am assuming that my user got the name of the file she was trying to use correct, though I could double check that.

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Re^4: reading from a huge file by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2011 at 19:51 UTC
Why would you not print the error message? (also, 3-arg open, lexical handle, yadda, etc) `open my $fileHandle, '<', $infile or die "Unable to open $infile for read: $!\n";`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: reading from a huge file by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Mar 21, 2011 at 19:57 UTC
`$!` could be quite interesting to know. For all we know the OP's script may just not have permission to read the file.	[reply] [d/l]