On Thu, November 7, 2013 1:18 pm, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > Is the entire file required in memory? A text file could be > processed sequentially a line or a buffer at a time.
No, the entire file is not required in memory at the same time. I'm just taking 1 line at a time, and writing the string out to a different file based on the first 6 characters of the row. (That's the provider number.) I plan to create this "splitter" program to pare down the behemouth files into smaller ones they can process by provider. (All provider data is separate...no one mixed.) So given that...I don't have to worry how big their source file is then, eh? _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
