Re^2: Split a file based on column

All of the above answers seem to have problems with possible filehandle limits;

Re: Split a file based on column doesn't , also doesn't suffer from load-file-into-ram

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Re^3: Split a file based on column by space_monk (Chaplain) on Jan 17, 2013 at 11:04 UTC
You caught my comment whilst it was being drafted; I did state another reason for the approach I suggested. Memory is almost never a problem nowadays unless you're running it on your 15 year old PC, but 300k rows * 64 k per row (19GB??) may give some pause for thought. Time to go shopping for more memory or increase your cache. :-) A Monk aims to give answers to those who have none, and to learn from those who know more.	[reply]
Re^4: Split a file based on column by davido (Cardinal) on Jan 17, 2013 at 18:56 UTC
Loading a 19GB file into memory does indeed give pause for thought.... long long pause. :) Time enough to contemplate approaches that do scale well. Your accumulate and write when full strategy is a pretty good idea. It would be a data cache rather than a filehandle cache, and the implementation ought to be pretty straight forward. Implementing the file-handle LFU cache seems like it would be more fun though. Dave	[reply]