On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, James Linden Rose, III wrote: > I use somewhat large files in perl (most under 1 megabyte but over > 100K) and I've never had a memory problem (fingers crossed), but I am > wondering about using some rotating buffer techniques for when these > data files start to get larger. What is the proper method for taking > a file of say 10,000 lines, and slurping up just lines 2,200 to 2,300?
Well, there's Tie::File. http://perl.plover.com/TieFile/ Alan
