Re: Going through a big file

[RMGir]

Aside from the excellent advice above about using while rather than for, you may also want to consider looking at the File::SortedSeek module.

It's not directly applicable to what you're doing, but you could use it for inspiration - if your XML is in any kind of sorted order, you can save ENORMOUS amounts of time by doing binary searches if you only need to process a small subset of the file.

[Chuma]

Thanks, I do actually need to process the whole thing, but I'll keep that in mind for later anyway.