in reply to Re^2: Faster and more efficient way to read a file vertically -- updated
in thread Faster and more efficient way to read a file vertically

Yes Laurent_R you are absolutely rigth and probably i gave a dumb answer. I not even looked other's replies carefully before posting: as only excuse i can say i was filling the bathtub.. ;=)

If data must be accessed more times probably is worth to put into an sqlite db, a char per column and access it via SQL queries. No big memory overhead and super speed.

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