On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Jon Serra wrote:
> Greetings, I am trying to read a text file into a scalar variable line by line
> until EOF or a search test if fullfilled. I have been reading files in like
> this:
>
> chomp (@line = `cat filename`);
>
> I do not want to do this beacuse my file is quite large, and there is no reason
> to hog the memory for the little bit I actually want, and second, I do not want
> to make a system call to the unix cat command. TIA Jon
The canonical way to read data from a file in Perl is:
open FHANDLE, "<$filename" or die "Can't open $filename: $!\n";
while(<FHANDLE>) {
chomp;
#do stuff with $_
}
close FHANDLE;
See the perldoc on the open function.
-- Brett
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