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So @aob is the last big array to be tamed.

Did you try Tie::Array::Packed?


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Re^5: Handling HUGE amounts of data
by Dandello (Monk) on Jan 31, 2011 at 07:40 UTC

    I'll try to decipher its vagaries when I've had some sleep. But it looks promising.

    I'm just glad the blasted program's working adequately now.

    In tab delimited, the final data file comes in at 382 Meg.