Correct, I think. If I was unclear on the tradeoffs I did intend to imply that splitting on a delimiter, even if it's a delimiter near the middle of the file, will almost never result in both sides of the split being of identical size. If you're forced to split into identical sizes on a file where the physical middle is not guaranteed to fall on a record boundary, then you must necessarily lose record-oriented semantics, or deal with the record that spans the physical middle of the file being broken.

I suspect that in this individual's case, it's a reasonable tradeoff for each file to be approximately equal in size to the extent that retaining logical record integrity permits. That is, records are more important than exact size.


Dave

In reply to Re^3: split large CSV file >9.1MB into files of equal size that can be opened in excel by davido
in thread split large CSV file >9.1MB into files of equal size that can be opened in excel by Anonymous Monk

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