in reply to Re^2: Help needed in reading a very large file line by line
in thread Help needed in reading a very large file line by line

:) Impossible, see 

$ perl -le " while(<FILEHANDLE>) "
syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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