in reply to Re^2: Hash Search is VERY slow
in thread Hash Search is VERY slow
We do have some idea of what the other fields may hold, in that the original post states the CSV files are firewall logs. I'm not aware of any common firewall log format which includes data that might contain embedded newlines, so it's probably not an issue in this case. But OP would know the specifics of the format they're dealing with better than I do, of course.