Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:49:59 -0500
Reply-To:     Joe Whitehurst <joewhitehurst@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joe Whitehurst <joewhitehurst@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Array use?
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I thought RECFM=N eliminated the construct of LRECL?  If the file is
rendered recordless, why would there be a maximum LRECL?  I'll look a little
deeper into this.


>  Recfm=n does read a fle, but I believe it cannot read a 1gig file as
> a string, the maximum lrecl=1 megabyte.
>
>  In PERL you can seemlessly run a regular expression against a file
> and match a string 1 gigabye into the file.
>