[MacPerl] Stepping through large text files

[kevinl@mbagraphics.com (Kevin Lindsey)]

I was curious.  I'm stepping through a large PostScript file (200MB) to
extract useful information from it.  I'm using the standard loop:

	while (<>) {
		chop;
		processLine();
	}

Apparently, MacPerl needs as much free memory (plus a little more) as the
size of the file that it is reading in.  Is there anyway to avoid this? I'm
only interested in one line at a time.  I don't need for the whole file to
be resident in memory.

TIA,
Kevin


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