opening a file in perl

[Jeremy]

On 2002.05.01 10:38 Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> On Wed, 01 May 2002, Nemo - earth native wrote:
> > 	foreach my $line ( <IN> )
> 
> The other thing is (and I don't know how valid this is with newer
> versions of Perl) you're better off declaring $line outside the
> foreach,
> as the way you have it a new $line is malloced each iteration, and its
> up to the garbage collector to nuke the old one.

It's OK.  Perl caches the memory - it never releases it back to the 
system.  When you define line again, it tries it's own memory cache 
allocator thingy first, then heads out to the system to get it.

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> Matt
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