[MacPerl] Stepping through large text files

[mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning/Muniz Eng.)]

According to Kevin Lindsey:
> 
> 	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.
> 

If you are using the above loop MacPerl would not retain
the 200mb of information.  Something within "processLine()"
is causing your problem.  Check to make sure you aren't
storing all of the information.  :-)

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