in reply to Merging files, 1 line for every 10

What a very strange concept. I can see no real practical use for such a thing.

Homework?

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Re^2: Merging files, 1 line for every 10
by Luxin (Initiate) on Sep 07, 2011 at 13:27 UTC
    LOL - No, not homework. I am performance testing a system that uses multiple data repositories. In Production, about 10% of requests get serviced by system A, and 90% get serviced by system B. To properly mimic production I need to load test the system with similar requests, hence the 10/90 split.
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      OK. But doing a "1 line from file A followed by 9 lines from file B", you are actually handling a degenerate case where all requests are artificially spaced in an even way. Wouldn't it be more "real" to randomly determine from which file to read the next request: 
      if (int(rand(10) = 0)) {
    # read from file A
} else {
    # read from file B
}

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