Typeglob filehandles make my eyes bleed. I know they're out there in the wild. But if you can avoid creating new code that uses them you'll be happier in the longrun.

If you could post what your expected output is, as opposed to what you're getting, that would be helpful. Also, when you say all blocks are identical, do you mean identical? If that's the case, you have 30 gigs of millions of identically repeated four-line blocks? That doesn't make any sense. I re-read the question a few times and just couldn't come up with a concept of what you mean to say. ...probably my fault. But could you clarify what your dataset looks like, what output you're getting, and what you're expecting?


Dave

In reply to Re: index for large text file by davido
in thread index for large text file by cafeblue

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