If the regex solution provided by Melly isn't as fast as you need, you might try:
open( IN, '<', "Your_data_here" ); open( GOOD, '>', "Good_file_here" ); open( BAD, '>', "Bad_file_here" ); while (<IN>) { my @row = split "\t", $_; if ( length($row[14]) == 5 && length($row[15]) == 7 ) { print GOOD $_; next; } print BAD $_; } close BAD; close GOOD; close IN;
Note: awk processing a million rows/minute probably isn't that bad. I'm not sure Perl is going to be much faster. This is a very I/O-bound activity.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re: Performance challenges by dragonchild
in thread Performance challenges by Anonymous Monk

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