"West, William M" wrote:
by slurping the WHOLE file into memory at once (do you have room to but a 45
megabyte file into memory?) the speed of the processing went up-
Highly unlikely. There is no real speed advantage with Perl in slurping a
file.
Slurping certainly can be faster. I agree that it's not for everything, but it certainly has it's place.
There's and excellent article on perl.com about this:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/11/21/slurp.html
James
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