Re^9: how to check if a particular value exist in list of files stored in an array

Have you checked how long it takes to fetch the data without doing anything else?

You can't get faster than the time it takes you to fetch the data.

Maybe you can be smarter and find out that you don't need to read all the data.

For example, if you can guess in what file what data is most likely and start with that file.
Or, if you need to search the same files for multiple times, it may prove fruitful to create an index into the files that tells you where what data lives.
Or it might be fruitful to sort your large files so that you can very quickly check whether data is available.

Only you with your knowledge about the files and the data can decide whether you need to read through all files to find the entries or not.

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