On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:43:28PM -0800, Rick wrote:
> A foreach requires perl to hold the whole file in memory, while the "while"
> process a line at a time.

That entirely depends on the while loop.  In this case, Marek read the
whole file into memory before the while loop, which is iterating over regex
matches, not lines.

Ronald

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