Hi Monks,

I am using following tie process to load large files into an array. Some of the files will be over a gig so I don't want any mem usage at all. I want to confirm that referencing $ra_list->[0] will not recreate the list into memory at all. I know that it won't on a standard array ref but this is a tie::file and I don't know if they work differently in that respect.

my $ra_list = getList();
my $line1 = $ra_list->[0];

sub getList {
  my @list;
  tie(@list, 'Tie::File', '/path/file', memory => 0, mode => O_RDONLY)
+;
  return \@list;
}
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