On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Dave Kettmann wrote: > The reply was deserved :) Just another question before I go too far > with this... The files I am parsing (just needing 2 tabbed fields out > of them) are approximately 20,000 - 25,000 lines long a piece. Each of > these files will be globbed into one file, but that is something > completely different. I guess my question is, would I be better off > calling exec(cut) with files of this size for ease of use? Guess I > should have mentioned this in my previous email.
Not necessarily. I seem to remember that as long as you're iterating over a small window of the file at any given time, you don't necessarily end up slurping the whole thing into memory at once. How long is each line? How large are the files, bytewise? And how much memory (etc) do you have to work with? This is going to be a situations where benchmarks are invaluable. -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
