At 02:46 PM 9/26/05 -0400, Craig Cardimon wrote:
>I am reading in portions of large files into string variables. The 
>number of and size of the files vary by month. Right now I'm working 
>with nearly 70,000 files, the largest of which is 7 GB. Not all files 
>are processed, but all are scanned line by line for keywords. If a 
>keyword is found, the entire file is read in for section by section 
>processing.

So I take it that it's the "section processing" that is exhausting ur
memory?  It seems like this exact same issue came up on the list a few
months ago.  Scanning huge files for keywords.  Did u learn anything from
that?  I need to see ur code to be of any more help.





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