Thank you all very much for your suggestions and input... they've been
very helpful. I found the easiest apporach, as a beginner to this, was
working with Chirag's code. Thanks Chirag, I was actually able to read
and make some edit's to the code and then use it... woohooo!
My changes are annotated
Hi there, I'm a Python newbie hoping for some direction in working with
text files that range from 100MB to 1G in size. Basically certain rows,
sorted by the first (primary) field maybe second (date), need to be
copied and written to their own file, and some string manipulations
need to happen as w
