Thank you very much. I like to learn by example and this is great. I'll be honest I'm trying to understand how the code works as I am still very novice to Perl and programming in general. what do these lines mean?   1+index( <$fh>, $target ) and ++$count while tell( $fh ) < $end; Is this reading the file line by line, returning line number where $target is found, and increasing $count for every time $target is found? Tell function returns the index position just to check end of file? Why couldn't you do while (<$fh>)? 
our $T //= 4;

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I couldn't really google two forward slashes so I don't know what this means. 
my @threads = map{
    threads->new( \&worker, $filename, $target, $chunks[ $_ ], $chunks
+[ $_+1 ] )
} 0 .. $T-1;

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Ok map will transform arrays, but here it seems like it is assigning 3 threads to @threads? threads->new() creates new thread while passing the worker sub and 4 variables? or is it creating a worker sub and passing those variables to worker? 
my $total = 0;
$total += $_->join for @threads;

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this concatenates the thread results? but i don't see where or when the lines with $target were passed back and stored? Thanks again

In reply to Re^4: How to split file for threading? by diyaz
in thread How to split file for threading? by diyaz

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