What would this look like? I presume the "memory" part means reading the words into an array? This runs amazingly (to me) fast already but I guess I'd like every bit of efficiency I can wring out of my Mac! Jeff Myers "Axel M. Roest" wrote: > The best thing to do would be to read the whole word list into memory > and do the grepping there. Else you would need to open the file every > time you pass through the loop. > > Axel # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org