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
open IN, '< filename' or die "Cannot open filename: $!";
while ( <IN> ) {
chomp;
# do something with current line
}
John
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