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matt.tovey
<I>And you're doing something really weird with @lines; if you get to line 100,000 it's going to allocate a 100,000 element array. Considering it's probably sparse you should use a hash for that as well.</I>
<P>Yes, that's the file being held in memory. :(
<P>I just tried putting that into a hash (also using 'delete' now - thanks!). It runs only slightly slower, and consumes quite a bit less memory, so success there!
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