Hello!

Currently working on a document processor that reads most of a directory into memory, parses the files there-hidden, and then dumps the resultant data to several different files on disc ( the reason is obscure and distressing)

I have found however that the log file writes, given they are going to several different files (and at some point soon probably over network shares) are becoming a bottleneck, which is an issue given there are about 800k 1 MB~ files to do on a more than daily basis. (waiting for the DBA to get on with it)

Therefore I would like to store some quantity of the output into memory until a limit is reached, then dump them to disc. viz:

<<loop>>
{
 if ($hashmatch{$scrutiny}){
  $$bufmem = $$bufmem . "<<secret parsing output goes here!>>\n";
  if (length($$bufmem) > 1024){
   print("buffer dump\n");
   $outfh->print($$bufmem);
   $$bufmem = "";    
  }
 }
}
$outfh->print($$bufmem);
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I am sure there is a better/more portable way of doing this though, but I can't seem to describe it to the search engine daemons so as to get the right sort of answer. can anyone describe/direct or otherwise enlighten me in this regard?

yrs,

TR