no warnings; $^W=0; open my $in, $ARGV[0] or die "Couldn't open $ARGV[0]:$!"; my ($buffer, %h) = ''; keys %h = 1024*500; while (sysread($in, $buffer, 16384, length $buffer)) { $h{$1}++ while $buffer =~ m[^(?:.+?\|){9}([^|]+)\|]mg; $buffer = substr($buffer, rindex($buffer, "\n")); } print scalar keys %h;