in reply to Search Efficiency
Perl doesn't read in the entire file each time through that loop. Each time through the loop, Perl just reads the next line from the still-opened file.
A few tidbits that might come in handy if you're doing anything more complex:
If you need to know the current line number, look at the $. variable (dollar dot).
The seek function can be used to go to a specific part of a file without reading the whole thing. The tell function returns the current file position in bytes, based at 0.
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Re: Re: Search Efficiency
by particle (Vicar) on Jul 11, 2001 at 19:37 UTC |
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