RE: the angle operator and really big files

2001-08-31 Thread Doug Lentz
Thanks. I'll take a look at perldoc perldebguts. Just to provide some context here: my script takes an MSDOS/Windows (columnar) text file and converts it to xBASE .DBF format, for reading in dBASE IV for Unix. I don't use any modules; basically I manipulate the text file and cat it onto the end o

Re: The angle operator and really big files

2001-08-30 Thread smoot
> Doug Lentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I've been using to read an entire text file into an array. > > @buffer = ; > > I string-manipulate the individual array elements and then sometime > later, do a > > $buffer = join "", @buffer; > > ...and this worked OK for a 80M text file. I couldn't

Re: The angle operator and really big files

2001-08-30 Thread Peter Scott
At 05:56 PM 8/30/01 -0400, Doug Lentz wrote: >I've been using to read an entire text file into an array. > >@buffer = ; > >I string-manipulate the individual array elements and then sometime >later, do a > >$buffer = join "", @buffer; > >...and this worked OK for a 80M text file. I couldn't resis