The two obvious approaches (well, ignoring tied hashes, dbs, etc.) are both crippled - memory requirements will prevent you reading in the whole file (as you've already found), while a line-by-line approach (read a line, check the rest of the file for a duplicate) would be crippling in terms of time... so why not try a hybrid - read in, say, 10,000 lines, check the rest of the file for duplicates, then read the next 10,000?

The following code is not complete, or fully tested (e.g. EOF handling?).

use strict; my $file = 'data.txt'; my $thiscount; my $fullcount; my $max = 10; # change this to, say, 10000 my %lines; open(INPUT, $file); while(<INPUT>){ chomp; if(exists $lines{$_}){ print "duplicate line (on read):$_\n"; } else{ $lines{$_} = 1; } $thiscount ++; $fullcount ++; if($thiscount >= $max){ my $checkcount=0; open(CHECK, $file); while(<CHECK>){ $checkcount ++; if($checkcount > $fullcount){ chomp; if(exists $lines{$_}){ print "duplicate line (on check):$_\n"; } } } undef %lines; $thiscount = 0; } }
map{$a=1-$_/10;map{$d=$a;$e=$b=$_/20-2;map{($d,$e)=(2*$d*$e+$a,$e**2 -$d**2+$b);$c=$d**2+$e**2>4?$d=8:_}1..50;print$c}0..59;print$/}0..20
Tom Melly, pm@tomandlu.co.uk

In reply to Re: Find duplicate lines from the file and write it into new file. by Melly
in thread Find duplicate lines from the file and write it into new file. by anna_here

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.