On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:32:58 -0500, "pDale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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.
Normally I would be happy to share, but I had a long look through my files and I can't find the Perl implementation of this script. I have the Awk version, but without a Perl version to compare it to it might not be very interesting to you. Mike _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list Perl-Win32-Admin@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
