Re: speeding up a file-based text search

You might benefit from using the sliding buffer technique (see: Re: split and sysread()).

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Re: Re: speeding up a file-based text search by perrin (Chancellor) on May 06, 2003 at 18:15 UTC
That's about what I was thinking of doing with read. Thanks for the sample code!	[reply]