On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 17:35, Simon Cozens wrote:
> Bruno Tavares:
> > @lines = <FILE>;
> 
> Reading a huge file into memory at once considered harmful.
> 

Selector, Lev Y wrote:
>> which would be the
>> obvious solution for a short file). 

for a large file this module
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=File-ReadBackwards (referred by
Ronald) would be a fair enough solution since it reads 8kb blocks into
memory.

> -- 
> Move 1
> pdcawley [11k]: This is, of course, where it all started to go wrong.
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Bruno Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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