Dan wrote:
>
> open (DYNIXDBF, "dynixte.txt");
> my @dynixdata = <DYNIXDBF>;
> close(DYNIXDBF);
> # there's no need for the file to be open all the time during processing
> # the file's data is in @dynixdata, so the file can be closed immediately
> # and the data in @dynixdata remains.
>
If the file is large there is. The above snippet puts the entire
contents of the file in to memory, where:
while ( <FH> ) { ...
only loads everything up to the input record seperator into memory,
repeating until the end of the file is reached.
Since the op wants to do line based processing, I suggest the while
construct, as the code will scale better.
Todd W.
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