Re: huge file : parsing problem

Saurabh Singhvi wrote:

pardon me for my negligence in calling it the traditional method ;).
I just meant traditional in my history :p.

'for' (or 'foreach') slurps the whole file before processing it, which
is why you were having problems.

Use 'while' for input, and 'for' (or 'foreach') for everything else and
happiness will be yours!

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