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Huge data file and looping best practices
I do see that the whole 6G data file is brought into memory. I'm guessing I need to use while loops, but I'm not sure the best way to do it.- carillonator
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- Forum: Perl
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Huge data file and looping best practices
Hi, I'm pretty new to Perl, but I have experience with PHP. I have been asked to improve a Perl script written by a questionable coder, which analyzes a set of data about patents. The data file has 8 million lines, which look like this: patent #, char1, char2, char3, ... , char480...- carillonator
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