Ooh, or maybe not. I just reread and line-seq and read-lines should
implement pretty much the same thing. (In the demo code it isn't clear
to me where you are using line-seq.)

 Are you holding on to the head of the sequence somewhere?

On Aug 31, 12:52 pm, Jonathan Smith <jonathansmith...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Look at clojure-contrib/duck_streams.clj
>
> (specifically the read-lines function)
>
> I think it should be sufficiently lazy to do the job that you are
> looking for. (although I don't have any 100mb txt files to test with
> handy right now...)
>
> On Aug 31, 10:44 am, wangzx <wangzaixi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just want to learn clojure by using it to parse log file and
> > generate reports. and one question is: for a large text file, can we
> > use it as a sequence effectively? for example, for a 100M log file, we
> > need to check each line for some pattern match.
>
> > I just using the (line-seq rdr) but it will cause
> > OutOfMemoryException.
>
> > demo code
>
> > (defn buffered-reader [file]
> >         (new java.io.BufferedReader
> >                 (new java.io.InputStreamReader
> >                         (new java.io.FileInputStream file))))
>
> > (def -reader (buffered-reader "test.txt"))
> > (filter #(= "some" %) -reader)
>
> > even there is no lines match "some", the filter operation will cause
> > OutOfMemoryException.
>
> > Is there other APIs like the Sequence but provide stream-like API?
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