Re^2: Chunking very large files

You're right in that the final version will have a fixed chunk size. This is simply an exercise to figure out if I can do it or not, and then I'll change the code accordingly.

I am not very experienced with buffers, and the code I pasted is from an earlier answer on perlmonks to a very similar question that I asked, only they were dealing with smaller files. I'll see if I can figure out how to adjust the loop and use fixed chunk sizes.

Thanks for your advice.

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Re^3: Chunking very large files by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Nov 09, 2011 at 20:07 UTC
Should be as simple as: `my $sizeRead = $chunkSize; while ($sizeRead == $chunkSize) { $sizeRead = read $in_fh, $buffer, $size; die "Error reading: $!\n" unless defined $sizeRead; ... }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Chunking very large files by hiptoss (Novice) on Nov 09, 2011 at 20:13 UTC
What about the end of the file where $sizeRead will be smaller than chunkSize?	[reply]
Re^5: Chunking very large files by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Nov 09, 2011 at 20:19 UTC
In that case, `$sizeRead` will be smaller than `$size`. Possibly zero if your file is exactly a multiple of the chunk size. You then write the chunk as normal (unless its size zero), and the while loop exits.	[reply] [d/l] [select]