cvs commit: perlfaq perlfaq5.pod

cvsuser     02/04/11 19:02:05

  Modified:    .        perlfaq5.pod
  Log:
  * mjd's patch clarifying remarks on Tie::File
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.15      +7 -6      perlfaq/perlfaq5.pod
  
  Index: perlfaq5.pod
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  RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq5.pod,v
  retrieving revision 1.14
  retrieving revision 1.15
  diff -u -w -r1.14 -r1.15
  --- perlfaq5.pod	7 Apr 2002 18:33:45 -0000	1.14
  +++ perlfaq5.pod	12 Apr 2002 02:02:05 -0000	1.15
  @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
   =head1 NAME
   
  -perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.14 $, $Date: 2002/04/07 18:33:45 $)
  +perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 2002/04/12 02:02:05 $)
   
   =head1 DESCRIPTION
   
  @@ -757,11 +757,12 @@
   
       @lines = <INPUT>;
   
  -you should think long and hard about why you need everything loaded
  -at once.  It's just not a scalable solution.  You might also find it
  -more fun to use the standard DB_File module's $DB_RECNO bindings,
  -which allow you to tie an array to a file so that accessing an element
  -the array actually accesses the corresponding line in the file.
  +you should think long and hard about why you need everything loaded at
  +once.  It's just not a scalable solution.  You might also find it more
  +fun to use the standard Tie::File module, or the DB_File module's
  +$DB_RECNO bindings, which allow you to tie an array to a file so that
  +accessing an element the array actually accesses the corresponding
  +line in the file.
   
   You can read the entire filehandle contents into a scalar.