Jerry Preston wrote: > Hi!, > > I am look for a better way and a faster way to deal with a 4 - 8 meg data > file. This file has been saved as an .cvs file for excel to read in. > > All I am interested in is the first three cells of ',' delimited data. > > Die,Row 0, Column 11 > Test Result,1 > Score,1 > PMark Score,0 > k Score,0 > Score,0 > ...
Perhaps you also should have a look to the CPAN modules Tie::File and Tie::CSV_File (Well, Tie::File is nowadays [Perl 5.8.0] a standard module) Greetings, Janek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]