Re: maximum file size for while(FILE) loop?

2007-01-21 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 09:31 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: What's exactly the difference between: ++$lines; and $lines++; ? Nothing in this context. What about other contexts? David. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: maximum file size for while(FILE) loop?

2007-01-21 Thread D. Bolliger
David Moreno Garza am Sonntag, 21. Januar 2007 07:50: On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 09:31 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: What's exactly the difference between: ++$lines and $lines++; ? Nothing in this context. What about other contexts? Hi David #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; { #

Re: maximum file size for while(FILE) loop? - maybe HASH problem?

2007-01-20 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 1/19/07, Bertrand Baesjou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While running my script it seems to use around a gigabyte of memory (there is 1GB of RAM and 1GB of swap in the system), might this be the problem? If you're running low on memory, unless you're working on an inherintly large problem, your

maximum file size for while(FILE) loop?

2007-01-19 Thread Bertrand Baesjou
Hi, I am trying to read data from a file, I do this by using the while (FILE){ $line} construction. However with files with a size of roughly bigger than 430MB it seems to crash the script :S Syntax seems all fine (perl -wc - syntax OK). I was thinking that maybe it was running to the

Re: maximum file size for while(FILE) loop?

2007-01-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 13:16 +0100, Bertrand Baesjou wrote: Hi, I am trying to read data from a file, I do this by using the while (FILE){ $line} construction. However with files with a size of roughly bigger than 430MB it seems to crash the script :S Syntax seems all fine (perl -wc -

Re: maximum file size for while(FILE) loop?

2007-01-19 Thread Rob Dixon
Bertrand Baesjou wrote: Hi, I am trying to read data from a file, I do this by using the while (FILE){ $line} construction. However with files with a size of roughly bigger than 430MB it seems to crash the script :S Syntax seems all fine (perl -wc - syntax OK). How does your script

Re: maximum file size for while(FILE) loop? - maybe HASH problem?

2007-01-19 Thread Bertrand Baesjou
Ken Foskey wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 13:16 +0100, Bertrand Baesjou wrote: Hi, I am trying to read data from a file, I do this by using the while (FILE){ $line} construction. However with files with a size of roughly bigger than 430MB it seems to crash the script :S Syntax seems all

Re: maximum file size for while(FILE) loop? - maybe HASH problem?

2007-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:17:19PM +0100, Bertrand Baesjou wrote: foreach $line (INFILE) { See, this isn't a while loop, as you have in the subject. That is the cause of your problems. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: maximum file size for while(FILE) loop?

2007-01-19 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 13:24 +, Rob Dixon wrote: ++$lines; What's exactly the difference between: ++$lines; and $lines++; ? David. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: maximum file size for while(FILE) loop?

2007-01-19 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 16:21 -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 13:24 +, Rob Dixon wrote: ++$lines; What's exactly the difference between: ++$lines; and $lines++; ? Nothing in this context. It does make a difference if you are 'using' the value see

Re: maximum file size for while(FILE) loop?

2007-01-19 Thread John W. Krahn
David Moreno Garza wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 13:24 +, Rob Dixon wrote: ++$lines; What's exactly the difference between: ++$lines; and $lines++; ? In void context they are both the same because perl optimizes $lines++ to ++$lines. John -- Perl isn't a toolbox, but a