On 11/2/05, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Durocher, Leo wrote: > > > I need to extract Date, Time, Recipient-Address, Sender-Address and > > the Subject. > > I know this is a Perl mailing list, and I'm a Perl guy myself, but I was > dealing with the same problem a couple of months ago and actually found > a much better solution not using Perl. > > I was trying to extract data from a set of CSV files of approximately > 7MB each, one per day for the last 9 years, so several tens of gigabytes > of data. Using Perl to do this took close to two hours, which was too > long for what I wanted. I coded the same script up in Awk (actually > gawk) and it runs through all the files in about five minutes.
I would be very interested to see your Perl vs. your gawk implementation, if we may. -- pDale Campbell "Elvis, are you out there somewhere?" _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list Perl-Win32-Admin@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
