Brian <fulls...@me.com> asked:
> >> foreach $line (<LOGFILE>) {
> >
> > while (my $line = <$logfile>) would be a better idea than
> > foreach $line.
>
> Just curious for an explanation to this. I tend to use foreach too.
> Don't they both accomplish the same thing? :)
"foreach (<LOGFILE>)" means that the whole file will be read into memory and
split into lines before the loop commences.
The second construct will just read in a line at a time, thus trading off speed
for memory usage.
HTH,
Thomas
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