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in reply to Windows 7 Remove Tabs Out of Memory

use warnings;
use strict;
use autodie;

open my $fhi, '<', 'large_file.txt';
open my $fho, '>', 'test.txt';
while (<$fhi>) {
    s/\t/ /g;
    print $fho $_;
}

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