[ale] OT: Perl and VERY large files

[phasefx at magusaptus.com (Jason Etheridge)]

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 05:08 PM, Jeff Rose wrote:
> Hello,
>    I'm dabbling in perl at work and really like it so far.  I've 
> written several scripts lately.  One I need to finish involves opening 
> a file ~17 GB.  perl balks giving the following error.
>
> 'Value too large for defined data type at <name of script> line 
> <number>'

It fails on the open function itself?  Maybe you can do something like 
open FILE, "cat filename |";

If cat doesn't balk on it as well. :)

-- Jason

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