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RE: RE: RE: Return the contents of a file

by btrott (Parson)
on Apr 12, 2000 at 07:18 UTC ( [id://7364]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to RE: RE: Return the contents of a file
in thread Return the contents of a file

There *are* memory issues in having very large variables, just as there would be, presumably, in any language. Perl variables take up a lot of space. From perlfaq3:
When it comes to time-space tradeoffs, Perl nearly always prefers to throw memory at a problem. Scalars in Perl use more memory than strings in C, arrays take more that, and hashes use even more.
I mean, if you *can* process a file line by line, it's best to do so.

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