Speed is not your only problem. 
while (<$fh>) {
  foreach my $subset (keys %lookingFor) {
    foreach my $item (@{$subset}) {
      if (<$fh> =~ m/$item/) {
        my $writeFh = new FileHandle ">> myout.log";
        print $writeFh <$fh>;
      }
   }
}

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 You are reading a new line from the log file each time you try a match in the "if" statement. Make that 
if ( m/$item/ ) {

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so you run all the matches on the current line. That won't make it faster but correcter.

Further, you are re-opening the output file each time there is something to write. Open it once before the loop (simple write mode is okay, no need for append), and just use it in the loop. That will make it faster though there's no way of saying by how much.

Try that. If it's still too slow, go back to optimizing the regex work.

Anno

In reply to Re: how to parse large files by Anno
in thread how to parse large files by domcyrus

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