in reply to extracting strings from text files

I wish I could post those files, but they are too big (about 20GB)

The files wouldn't help us to help you, but the code you are using to read them would.

Some possibilities are:

If you posted the code, most of those could be eliminated very easily and the real reason might well be obvious to someone here.


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The start of some sanity?