I've already created it and got it working passing back an array, which you then can loop through as normal. Problem is in my case the array is going to be returning a MASSIVE amount of data, we are talking of a processing time of about 6 hours. Unless I'm on a supercomputer with a crap load of RAM I'd have to chop that array into pieces and pass it back piecemeal or stream it. Plus streaming is faster I believe. There has to be a way because streaming is possible, I'm just not familiar with the syntax. I've seen modules where people write to a stream and then read the FILEHANDLE on the stream. Help! Please?

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