Hi again, Thanks all, for your good advices!
I wrote some scripts which all worked from bits of peaces from the list - but I have a question on performance: 1. First I tried the to use a "while" loop by: __________________________________________________________ #! /usr/bin/perl -w use List::Util qw(first max min); open IN, "<", "num.txt"; while ($xx = <IN>) { chomp $xx; my @xx = split (/\s+/, $xx); push @col1, $xx[0]; } $result1 = max @col1; $result3 = min @col1; $result7 = sum @col1; print "Max: $result1\n"; print "Min: $result3\n"; print "Sum: $result7\n"; close IN; ______________________________________________________________ 2. I tried to use Janek's (and thanks for the advice - see below) advice on Tie:File which also worked! But there was a great diffrence in performance. With a two collumn file of 300000 lines - it took example no. 1 appr. 20 sek and example 2 appr. 5 min. and used all of the computers RAM (128MB). Why is the diffrence that big? Is it bacause Tie::File sucks it all into memmory and do something with it? A note to the last part: I tried to use: my @in = <IN>; foreach $xx (@in) { ---and so on instead of the "while" loop and that took appr. 30 sek - alas not as slow as "Tie" Cheers, Jakob > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Janek Schleicher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 6. august 2003 12:10 > Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Emne: Re: List::Util / arrays > > > Jakob Kofoed wrote at Tue, 05 Aug 2003 23:33:29 +0200: > > > I am trying to get the maximum number in a file looking like: > > > > 1 5001 > > [...] > > 19 5019 > > > > > > I had the idea to push the individual line in a row into a > array and se > > the List::Util module - but I cant get it to work. > > Yet another solution might be > > use Tie::File; > use List::Util qw/max/; > > tie my @line, 'Tie::File', $filename; > print max map {(split)[1]} @line; > > > Greetings, > Janek > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]