Re: Help needed in reading a very large file line by line

To read a file line by line, just use

while (<>) {
    # process the line contained in $_
}
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What do you mean by "does not seem to be working"?

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Re^2: Help needed in reading a very large file line by line by Anonymous Monk on Feb 28, 2012 at 10:48 UTC
Opening the big file with the open statement and then using while(<FILEHANDLE>) gives an Out of Memory! error.	[reply]
Re^3: Help needed in reading a very large file line by line by Anonymous Monk on Feb 28, 2012 at 11:08 UTC
So the file doesn't contain lines?	[reply]
Re^3: Help needed in reading a very large file line by line by ddragosa (Acolyte) on Mar 20, 2015 at 08:25 UTC
It is giving "Out of memory" because in your environment (I suppose it is a UNIX based one) your settings for "ulimit -a" at "data(kbytes)" is less than the file's size; Try modifying the data parameter with a value larger than the file you are processing. If you can't do that, use Tie::File. Slower but not a memory hog user.	[reply]