Hi all,

Thank you very much. I'll change the code to read line by line. And I'll check the forkmanager module as well. What I failed to mention is that, while the processing is done only on every 2nd line, the other lines are not discarded. Let me explain:

Assume the file as n quadruples. Each 4 lines (1:4, 5:8 etc..) belong as one entity. From each of these 4 lines I check/edit the 2nd line and then if it satisfies the criteria, then I have to write these 4 lines (3 of them untouched, yes) back to another output file, otherwise I don't, meaning those 4 lines are discarded for the output file.

Thanks again.

In reply to Re^2: buffering from a large file by cedance
in thread buffering from a large file by cedance

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