Eating memory

[Luke Ross]

Hi,

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:53:05PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> 
> foreach (<INFILE>) {
> }

Your problem is here. The file is read into memory as an array of lines, 
which foreach steps over. You need to use:

while(<INFILE>)

which does what you want, as it's short for:

while (defined($_ = <INFILE>))

The scalar assignment means only one line is read from INFILE on each 
loop.

Luke
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