Re^4: Read Some lines in Tera byte file

because i said file is in tera bytes, so if my file reading position is nth (ex : 99999999) then it will be difficult to parse all lines and consuming time also.

do we have function in perl like seek?

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Re^5: Read Some lines in Tera byte file by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 13, 2010 at 08:07 UTC
Perl has seek as a builtin. It's not gonna help solve the question you asked us, though.	[reply]
Re^6: Read Some lines in Tera byte file by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 13, 2010 at 08:18 UTC
It might if he's forgotten to mention that his records are fixed length.	[reply]
Re^7: Read Some lines in Tera byte file by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 13, 2010 at 08:27 UTC
I suppose his lines could all be the same length, or he might have been using the term "line" loosely. bhaskar, are your lines/records all the same length? If so, your could calculate the position to which to seek using a simple multiplication.	[reply]