See, I'm not even worried about the script, I'll make it work, that's not a prob. I was just wondering if anyone knew of any limitations on the amount of data that STDIN can handle, I probably should have made that more clear..
And tmiklas your right about it occupying more mem, but as you know, a @var handles multiple scalars which is what I want, in order to split the imputed data..
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STDIN shouldn't have a per-line limit.
However, there may be a per-process limit to the amount of memory that you can use. Check out ulimit(1).
The little snippet below will print a string of about 80MB, then read it back into a single scalar in perl. I just tried this out on my workstation, and it seems to work just fine.
perl -e 'print "a"x85000000' | \
perl -e 'my $line = <STDIN>; print length($line), "\n";'
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