Recommended data file size..? 2

[blitzer]

How long (# of lines) do you think data files should get to be before you tell the script to start a new file? I'm worried about load time when a new line is added. I figure that telling a script:

print file "blah\n";
foreach (@file) { print file "@file\n"; }

.. takes a long time to load if the file has 10,000+ lines.. but I could be wrong because I don't know how Perl works.

thanks.

 

[Siberdude]

As far as i can tell, it doesn't read the file when appending or writing, just checks where the end is (when appending) and writes to there.
i've writtern a perl message board, and iuse append to add replies to posts, sometimes, on hot topics, these data files ceanget ot be 1000+ lines.. and it doesn't appear any slower than when it originlly writes the file
Siberdude
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[sackyhack]

print file "blah\n";
foreach (@file) { print file "@file\n"; }

If @file is an array of 10,000 elements, your code will write out the entire array 10,000 times.

I think your second line should be either

foreach (@file) {print file "$_\n"; }

or

print file @file, "\n";

With the second option you can add a "\n" between each array element by setting the list separator ($&quot to "\n"
before executing the print statement.