On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:39, Jim Gibson <jimsgib...@gmail.com> wrote: snip > A file of length 10MB should be no problem for Perl. snip
Perl doesn't start having problems with files until you start getting into areas that the OS has problems with those files. Your machine, however, may have problems if it does not have enough memory. I remember working on a production machine that only had eight megabytes of RAM (of course, that was in 1999). And I had to type uphill, both ways. -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/