Pablo Fischer wrote at Tue, 05 Aug 2003 15:43:19 +0000:

> Reading all these message about reading a 'big' file (I know that 180MB its 
> not a big file), but what's the difference from reading like this:
> 
> @file = <FILE>;

That reads all lines of a file into the @file array.
That means, at least all the amount of the file size is now needed in RAM.

> foreach (@file) {
>       print $_;
> }
> 
> and with a While?

With a while loop, the program reads line by line,
thus only about the line length size is allocated by the program in RAM.


Greetings,
Janek

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