Good idea, but if the big file is really BIG, perhaps one runs into memory problems (I guess it will depend on how the tie is done) and somehow one still has to run through the file to see where the individual lines start, so you can tie your array to them.

In the same vien I was thinking of some DBI::DBD solution (there are DBD-drivers for flat-file database-files) but it also needs to work through the file to find the individual records, unless you have fixed length records and then the matter is trivial to solve in any case.

CountZero

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In reply to Re: Re: breaking up very large text files - windows by CountZero
in thread breaking up very large text files - windows by antichef

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