John W. Krahn wrote:
> Rob Dixon wrote:
>>
>> John W. Krahn wrote:
>>>
>>> You should _always_ verify that the file opened successfully.
>>
>> Sure, but that's not what the question was about. You should always
>> add 'use strict' and 'use warnings' too, but I didn't put that in
>> either.
>>
>>> m
Rob Dixon wrote:
>
> John W. Krahn wrote:
> > Rob Dixon wrote:
> >>
> >> open FILE, "< file.txt";
> >
> > You should _always_ verify that the file opened successfully.
>
> Sure, but that's not what the question was about. You should always add
> 'use strict' and 'use warnings' too, but I
John W. Krahn wrote:
> Rob Dixon wrote:
>>
>> Nelson Ray wrote:
>>> Just as a little background, I am working on a BioInformatics
>>> program that runs on large (about 300 meg) text files. I am using a
>>> filehandle to open and load it into an array. Then I use the join
>>> command to read the a
Rob Dixon wrote:
>
> Nelson Ray wrote:
> > Just as a little background, I am working on a BioInformatics program
> > that runs on large (about 300 meg) text files. I am using a
> > filehandle to open and load it into an array. Then I use the join
> > command to read the array into a scalar varia
Nelson Ray wrote:
>
> Just as a little background, I am working on a BioInformatics program that
> runs on large (about 300 meg) text files. I am using a filehandle to open
> and load it into an array. Then I use the join command to read the array
> into a scalar variable in order to be in a wor
Hi Nelson
Nelson Ray wrote:
> Just as a little background, I am working on a BioInformatics program
> that runs on large (about 300 meg) text files. I am using a
> filehandle to open and load it into an array. Then I use the join
> command to read the array into a scalar variable in order to be
