Oh, you are so right. I guess Panther is just
stingier with its memory, and I never got bitten by
this before!
Thanks!!
XB
--- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > *** malloc: vm_allocate(size=8421376) failed
> (error
> > code=3)
> > *** malloc[5576]: error: Can't allocate region
> > Out of memory!
> >
> > The strange thing is that I'm not slurping up the
> > whole file,
>
> Oh but you are...
>
> > I'm reading it line by line. But Perl
> > seems to be slurping the whole thing into memory
> > before even processing the first line. But even
> so,
>
> > foreach my $line (<FILE1>) {
>
> This reads in the whole file first because the (...)
> of
> for each enforces list context, and the <FH> in list
> context
> does read in the whole handle. You meant
>
> while (my $line = <FILE1>) {
> my $line = $_;
>
> or something similar.
>
>
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