Make the point a bit clearer after suggestion from Merijin

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perlfaq5.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq5.pod b/pod/perlfaq5.pod
index e7bcee2..4cf2598 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfaq5.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq5.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.13 $, $Date: 2002/03/16 15:37:26 $)
+perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 2002/04/12 02:02:05 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -496,7 +496,6 @@ literals
 
        open FILE, "<", "  file  ";  # filename is "   file   "
        open FILE, ">", ">file";     # filename is ">file"
-       
 
 It may be a lot clearer to use sysopen(), though:
 
@@ -758,11 +757,12 @@ you see someone do this:
 
     @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.