Re^2: Need to search for a string in a file

[anneli]

Will my @list = grep /re/, <FH> necessarily pull the entire file into memory? (I don't know and would like to know for sure!)

It sure seems to!

open my $fh, "<", "/dev/urandom" or die "$!";
my @a = grep /huh, whaddayamean/, <$fh>;