Ahh, thanks.

I agree that it is poor design, but at the time it is all I could think of. For the example I posted, I was testing it on a 38mb .mp3 file, in which case the CPU use for perl.exe goes to around 42mb while it's in use.

CPU usage is a big thing to me (I tend to use Firefox or Chrome, and I'm limited to around 2GB of usable memory at any given time. Add to that the fact that Firefox will take up around 300mb, and the system takes up a considerable amount, and I'm not left with a lot), so I am open to suggestions on how to make the coding for efficient.

Per your suggestion, and please correct me if I am wrong, you are saying that it would take less memory to add the file to an array, and then split it from there? I figured that adding it in at once would still spike the memory usage to whatever size the file was. While that is not a bad thing if the file is >100mb, when you have a 1GB file for example, it's not something that I would want slowing my computer down to a crawl. I probably misunderstood, and am just overlooking a way to do this effectively. If you could point me to any write-ups, or tutorials on ways to do this without causing a giant memory leak, then I would be super grateful :)

seek F,0,0;
while ($n = read (F, $data, $piece_length)  != 0) { 
$excount++;
$currentpiece = shift(@pieces);
    $counted++;
$currentpiece =~ s/(.)/sprintf("%02x",ord($1))/egs;
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This seems to work out well enough, since I only wanted one piece at a time for a .torrent file, and then it's not needed anymore. And, added bonus, all the hashes match up! I wanted to get this section working before I moved on to a finder section (Using File::Find, I want to be able to go through and find a torrents data directory in a list of subdirectories, then hash check all of the data. If it is complete, I will move the data directories to a specified area for better organization.) https://github.com/thoj/torrentmv-perl/blob/master/torrentmv.pl does a similar job or verifying data, but it doesn't go through multiple directories, has to have a path specified to it on the command line (which could change), and would not run on my Windows7 64bit system without some modifying which caused me to whip this script up.