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Please help me with your infinite wisdom. I am pulling in a .dat file as an input file to my perl module usinf the following:

my $fname = "$datpath2/pd2x.dat2";

I am accessing the contents via:

open FH, "< $fname" or die "Cannot open datfile: ", $!;
    while (<FH>) {
        if (/"DESTINATION"/)
           {
        .
        .
        .
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Whenever I get an input file greater than 45,000+ bytes my perl module comes to a stand still. Anything less than this and it runs just fine. What do I need to do to be able to input a larger file.

I apologize for being a novice

peace, LOVE and ((code))
basicdez

Edited: ~Fri Oct 18 21:32:21 2002 (GMT) by footpad: Added <code> tags and other HTML formatting to improve legibility, per Consideration

In reply to Increasing buffer size(?) for input FileHandle by basicdez

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