Re: Filesize limit for Perl on UNIX

2009-10-20 Thread Robert Citek
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote: > Taylor, Andrew (ASPIRE) wrote: >> Is there a 2GB filesize limit for perl? - we're running on verion 5.6. > > There is no file limit in Perl.  There is no memory limit in Perl.  Such > limits are because of: > > * the hardware, > * the OS, > *

Re: Filesize limit for Perl on UNIX

2009-10-19 Thread Shawn H Corey
Taylor, Andrew (ASPIRE) wrote: > Is there a 2GB filesize limit for perl? - we're running on verion 5.6. There is no file limit in Perl. There is no memory limit in Perl. Such limits are because of: * the hardware, * the OS, * the compiler that complied Perl -- Just my 0.0002 million doll

Filesize limit for Perl on UNIX

2009-10-19 Thread Taylor, Andrew (ASPIRE)
Hello We have a perl script that (essentially) concatenates a number of files into one. The process is more or less the following Open output file Foreach input file Open each input file write to output file close input file Close output file. The output file has cut off after hitting