Hi, On Thu, 24 May 2018 20:27:23 +0530 SATYABRATA KARAN <satyabratakara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > Does anyone guide me how to handle a huge file (>50GB) in perl? > > I tried open method this way, but it's hanging the terminal. I think that > is out of memory error internally. > > open my $FILE, "<", "Log_file.txt"; > > while (<$FILE>) { > chomp; > some task; > ... > } > > close $FILE; > 1. How long are the lines in the file? 2. Can you try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htop or similar to be sure? > > Thanks, > Satya -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/New-versions-of-the-GPL/ How many “one-liners” do I actually write? I don’t know; maybe a couple dozen a day. But I guess I must be unusual, because as we all know, AWK was a complete failure and vanished into obscurity since it didn’t address anyone’s real needs. (That was sarcasm.) — “Twelve Views of Mark Jason Dominus” Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/