I'm reading in a 500MB File with Sysread
Every line of this file has 31 fields separated with a Vertical Bar (|)
I'm interested in only a few of the 31 fields and I just cannot figure out the correct syntax for this. I've tried (.+?) 31 times, but that slows the program down so much, that it's not even funny.

Can someone please help? I suspect that I just need a very easy way to use split with this instead of a regex.

Line Example:

s0864|2003/04/14 00:00:41.136|MWP6|SeFraleidssV2        
   |   0.038|0000|    |OH|    |10.1.2.3  |807D|10183312            |10
+18331
2|  |     |20|         |PR84|P2AP|B01P|NNN|C21209 |    |    |        |
+    |00473
63|1419680|        |A|ABCD

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Here's the code that I've been trying to get to work.
$totalsentrycalls=0;
keys %count_by_sentry_server = 10;
keys %count_by_ip = 10000;
keys %count_by_api = 500;
keys %count_by_api_exec = 500;

while (sysread(INFILE, $buffer,16384,length $buffer)) {

   while ($buffer =~ m/(.+?)\|(.*)\n/g) {

   $totalsentrycalls++;
   $count_by_sentry_server{$0}++;
   $count_by_ip{$9}++;
   $count_by_api{$3}++;
   $count_by_api_exec{$3}{$totalsentrycalls}=$4;

   if ($31 =~ /^[A-Z]+/) {
      $hosts{$17}{$31}{$18}++;
   } else {
        if ($18 =~ /^[A-Z]+/) {
                $hosts{$17}{AORDIRECT}{$18}++;
        }
        else {
              $hosts{$17}{DB2}{LOCAL}++;
        }
   }

   }

   $buffer=substr($buffer, rindex($buffer, "\n"));
   print "$totalsentrycalls\n";

}

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Thanks!

In reply to split and sysread() by relaxed137

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