RE: Avoiding using temporary files

2004-04-15 Thread Barrett-Small, Richard
another loop. Memory shouldn't be an issue. Regards, Richard -Original Message- From: Daniel Staal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 April 2004 16:32 To: Perl Beginners Subject: Re: Avoiding using temporary files --As of Tuesday, April 13, 2004 2:16 PM +0200, Jenda Krynic

Re: Avoiding using temporary files

2004-04-14 Thread Adam
Richard, I wouldn't look to use a temporary file. In stead push your output into an array then iterate through the array on your second pass. I would expect you to get better performance as you won't have to worry about disk I/O. Regards, Adam On Apr 13, 2004, at 4:55 AM, Barrett-Small, Richar

Re: Avoiding using temporary files

2004-04-14 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:16 AM +0100, Richard Barrett-Small is alleged to have said: Could you give me a stab of code demonstrating appending or printing to a scalar and also how I might avoid printing OUT but retain the changes I made to the filehandle so they can be passed to anoth

Re: Avoiding using temporary files

2004-04-14 Thread Richard Barrett-Small
Thank you so much for this, Jenda and Daniel> Could you give me a stab of code demonstrating appending or printing to a scalar and also how I might avoid printing OUT but retain the changes I made to the filehandle so they can be passed to another loop. Memory shouldn't be an issue Richard . "Da

Re: Avoiding using temporary files

2004-04-13 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of Tuesday, April 13, 2004 2:16 PM +0200, Jenda Krynicky is alleged to have said: I am running some substitutions on a file which has a distinctive record structure. Each record is printed to the output filehandle in turn after the substitutions have been performed. Once all records are prin

Re: Avoiding using temporary files

2004-04-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Barrett-Small, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm looking for a way to print to a temporary filehandle or something > without having to open a file to print to. You can use IO::String or IO::stringy to create a filehandle that points to a string, not to a file. (I believe IO::String is par