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Chromatic, I need to get each element into an array. If the file size is 2 million bytes, then the array should have 2 million elements. How can I do that without draining RAM? Using your sub I get: 
@blah = by_string($file);
$i = 0;
foreach(@blah){
   $i ++;
}
print $i; # Prints 1... not what I am looking for

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Re: Re: Re: Eating RAM problem
by rsteinke (Scribe) on Aug 01, 2002 at 18:50 UTC

    Then use length $blah[0] instead. You can do anything with strings that you can do with an array of 0's and 1's. The syntax is just a little different.

    Ron Steinke rsteinke@w-link.net
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Re: Re: Re: Eating RAM problem
by I0 (Priest) on Aug 02, 2002 at 07:03 UTC
    Why do you need to get each element into an array?
    Could you use Tie::VecArray; ?
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