On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 18:01, Eduardo Vázquez Rodríguez wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am writing scripts that process big files which contains too many
> lines (aproximately 700 000 lines per file). My strategy until now to
> solve this problem is reading line per line, something like this
>
> while (<FILE>)
> {
> dosomethingwith($_);
> }
>
> Is there any way of working with multiple lines at the same time? can
> anyone suggest any better strategy?
From a discussion on the Fun-With-Perl mailing list:
while (my @a = map { eof() ? () : scalar <> } 1 .. $n) {
dosomethingwith(@a); # @a contains $n lines
}
HTH,
jac
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