perlquestion tallums <p>Hello - I'm using a Windows 7 laptop with 4GB RAM and I have a 500MB fixed-width text file from which I need to remove all tabs. I found this script online that does what I want on smaller (1KB) files, but gives me an "Out of Memory" error on the larger (500MB) file. </p> <p> During testing, I noticed that if I comment out the write_file line that the script finishes without the "Out of Memory" error. </p> <p> I don't know anything about Perl and I'm sure this is an easy fix for you guys. Your assistance/direction is much appreciated. </p> <p> Below is the script I'm using. </p> <code> use strict; use warnings; use File::Slurp; my $s = read_file('large_file.txt'); $s =~s/\t/ /g ; write_file('test.txt', $s); __END__ </code> <p> Thanks, Tim </p>