Hi all,

I've been searching around and having trouble finding the info I need to understand this. So, if your answer to this is to point me to the relevant doc, that's fine!

I'm writing a script that will use a large external data file. In some cases, I'll just need to grab a record out of the file -- no problemo. However sometimes I may need to read the whole file. We're talking over a million records here.

I know from past experience that trying to suck something like this up into a big data structure can be hazardous. I'm wondering if this: while (<INFILE>) is any better?

Are there other techniques I should use to traverse a large file like this and which might offer methods to move forward, back, go to beginning, etc.?

Any advice or pointers would be appreciated

In reply to help reading from large file needed by bigtiny

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