James wrote:
>File-Seektar.gz of proposed first contribution attached - full details in pod.
>In short a series of widgets that implement fast searches and extractions of
>data from sorted flat files implementing the halve the difference search
>algorithm. Several orders of magnitude faster than while (<FH>) { next unless
>/$some-cond/; #blah } type searches as algorithm is geometric rather than
>linear. Somewhat similar in utility to File::Readbackwards in being ideal for
>logfile data extraction amongst other things but can extract data between any
>date range in very short order.
Why "Seektar"? To me it sounds like a thing that finds tar archives.
K.
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