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Please do not suggest the use of Tie::File for use with files bigger than a few tens of megabytes.

Using it makes processing such files 10s or 100s of times slower than using normal line-by-line access for no benefit.

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Re^3: reading from a huge file
by chilledham (Friar) on Mar 21, 2011 at 20:41 UTC
    Very good to know, BrowserUK. Thanks for the clarification!
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