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Message Posted: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 @ 22:20:21 GMT

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Sajid,

You've got two Perl options that I can see.

1) You can use Tie::File, which is (the last time I looked) part of the standard Perl distribution. Look here:

www.theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/perl/Tie/File.html

for information.

2) You can use regular perl commands (print and length come to mind) to write the file in chunks of a size of your choosing. The general idea is to print in a loop while summing the chunk sizes with length, breaking the loop when you reach that size.

I love telling people about Perl, but it's not really the focus of this list, so let me instead give a reference for Perl similar to this list, and note in passing that commercial support for Perl is available from various companies.

www.perl.org/ is the place to look. On the left hand side of the page, you'll see a listing for Perl Mailinglists. I recommend trying comp.lang.perl.moderated first. Your question is basic, so that's the place to start.

I suspect that our host John is becoming a bit impatient with somewhat off-topic Perl questions, so let me beat him to the punch and suggest that such questions be taken there first and brought here should they become Teradata-specific.

Thanks,

John A
see me fulminate at www.jzip.org/

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