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I have a very large text file. When I create a filehandle and assign it to array it shows out of memory. Is it possible to search upto a particular specified line only.

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Consider using Tie::File.

Tie::File represents a regular text file as a Perl array. Each element in the array corresponds to a record in the file. The first line of the file is element 0 of the array; the second line is element 1, and so on.

The file is not loaded into memory, so this will work even for gigantic files.

~from Tie::File documentation.

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